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But if I had this cause so deserving, so illustrious, and so important; if either the
Sicilians had not demanded this of me, or I had not had such an intimate connection with
the Sicilians; and if I were to profess that what I am doing I am doing for the sake of
the republic, in order that a man endowed with unprecedented covetousness, audacity, and
wickedness,—whose thefts and crimes we have known to be most enormous and most
infamous, not in Sicily alone, but in
Achaia, in Asia, in Cilicia, in Pamphylia, and even at Rome, before the eyes of all men,—should be brought to trial by
my instrumentality, still, who would there be who could find fault with my act or my
intention?
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