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In the next place, as I said before on another occasion, what sort of a panegyric
is that, when the chief men of the deputation commissioned to utter it, stated, both
that a ship had been built for you at the public expense, and also that they
themselves had been plundered and pillaged by you in respect of their private
property? Lastly, what else is it that these people do, when they are the only
people in all Sicily who praise you, beyond proving to us that you gave them
everything of which you robbed our republic? What colony is there in Italy in possession of such privileges, what
municipality is there enjoying such immunities, as to have had for all these years
such a profitable exemption from all burdens, as the city of the Mamertines has had
for three years? They alone have not given what they were bound to give according to
the treaties; they alone, as long as that man was praetor, enjoyed immunity from all
burdens; they alone under that man's authority lived in such a condition that they
gave nothing to the Roman people, and refused nothing to Verres.
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