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iamne intellegitis, iudices, quae pestis, quae
immanitas
in vestra1 antiquissima fidelissima proximaque provincia
versata sit? iam2 videtis quam ob causam Sicilia, tot hominum
antea furta3 rapinas iniquitates ignominiasque perpessa,
hoc non potuerit novum ac singulare atque incredibile
genus iniuriarum contumeliarumque perferre4? iam omnes
intellegunt cur universa provincia defensorem suae salutis
eum quaesiverit cuius iste fidei diligentiae perseverantiae
nulla ratione eripi possit. tot iudiciis interfuistis, tot
homines nocentis et improbos accusatos et vestra et superiorum
memoria scitis esse: ecquem vidistis, ecquem
audistis in tantis furtis, in tam apertis, in tanta audacia, in
tanta impudentia5 esse versatum6?
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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