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What then do you say? Were there no disturbances of slaves in Sicily while Verres was praetor? Are no conspiracies
said to have taken place? None at all that have ever come to the knowledge of the
senate and people of Rome; none which that
man has thought worth writing public despatches to Rome about; and yet I do suspect that the body of slaves had begun to
be less orderly in some parts of Sicily;
and I infer that, not so much from any overt act, as from the actions and decrees of
Verres. And see with how little of a hostile feeling I am going to conduct this
case. I myself will mention and bring forward the things which he wishes to have
mentioned, and which as yet you have never heard of.
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