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But who was it, O Verres, whom you treated with such great, with such unexampled
injustice? Against whom did you receive a charge in his absence? Whom did you
condemn in his absence; not only without any crime, and without any witness, but
even without any accuser? Who was it? O ye immortal gods! I will not say your own
friend,—that which is the dearest title among men. I will not say your
host,—which is the most holy name. There is nothing in Sthenius's case
which I speak of less willingly. The only thing which I find it possible to blame
him in is,—that he, a most moderate and upright man, invited you, a man
full of adultery, and crime, and wickedness, to his house; that he, who had been and
was connected by ties of hospitality with Caius Marius, with Cnaeus Pompeius, with
Caius Marcellus, with Lucius Sisenna, your defender, and with other excellent
citizens, added your name also to that of those unimpeachable men.
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