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in your praetorship,
for the first time since Syracuse was
a city, did pirates sail about in that harbour, which no enemy had ever entered;
moreover, you did not seek to cover these numerous and terrible disgraces of yours
by any concealment on your part, nor did you seek to make men forget them by keeping
silence respecting them, but you even without any cause tore the captains of the
ships from the embrace of their parents, who were your own friends and connections,
and hurried them to death and torture; nor, in witnessing the grief and tears of
those parents, did any recollection of my name soften your heart; the blood of
innocent men was not only a pleasure but also a profit to you.”
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