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“Yes, the Sicilians hate me, because
I did a great deal for the sake of the Roman citizens.” But they too are
most bitter against you, and most hostile. “I have the Roman citizens for
my enemies, because I defended the interests and rights of the allies.”
But the allies complain that they were considered and treated by you as enemies.
“The agriculturists are hostile to me on account of the tenths.”
Well; they who cultivate land untaxed and free from this impost; why do they hate
you? why do the men of Halesa, of Centuripa, of Segesta, of Halicya hate you? What
race of men, what number of men, what rank of men can you name that does not hate
you, whether they be Roman citizens or Sicilians? So that even if I could not give a
reason for their hating you, still I should think that the fact ought to be
mentioned and that you also O judges, ought to hate the man whom all men hate.
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