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Those also who succeeded them, very zealous for his interests, liberally fed from
his stores, were no less vehement against me. See how great was his influence who
had four quaestors in one province, most zealous defenders and bulwarks of his
cause; and the praetor and all his train so zealous in his interest, that it was
quite plain, that it was not Sicily, which
they had come upon when stripped bare, so much as Verres himself, who had left it
loaded, which they looked upon as their province. They began to threaten the
Sicilians, if they decreed any deputations to make statements against him; to
threaten any one who had gone on any such deputation, to make most liberal promises
to others, if they spoke well of him; to detain by force and under guard the most
damaging witnesses of his private transactions, whom we had summoned by word of
mouth to give evidence.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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