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Do you now thoroughly understand, O judges, what a pest, what a barbarian has been
let loose in your most ancient, most loyal, and nearest province? Do you see now on
what account Sicily, which has before this
endured the thefts, and rapine, and iniquities, and insults of so many men, has not
been able to submit to this unprecedented, and extraordinary, and incredible series
of injuries and insults? All men are now aware why the whole province sought out
that man as a defender of its safety, from the effects of whose good faith, and
diligence, and perseverance Verres could not possibly be saved. You have been
present at many trials, you know that many guilty and wicked men have been impeached
within your own recollection, and that of your ancestors. Have you ever seen any
one, have you ever heard of any one, who has lived in the practice of such great,
such open robberies, of such audacity, of such shameless impudence?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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