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What shall we say of that multitude of those men who were produced with veiled
heads among the pirates and prisoners in order to be executed? What was that new
diligence of yours, and on what account was it put in operation? Did the loud
outcries of Lucius Flavius and the rest about Lucius Herennius influence you? Had
the excessive influence of Marcus Annius, a most influential and most honourable
man, made you a little more careful and more fearful? who lately stated in his
evidence that it was not some stranger, no one knows who, nor any foreigner, but a
Roman citizen who was well known to the whole body of inhabitants, who had been born
at Syracuse, who had been publicly
executed by you.
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