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Will you, O Quintus Caecilius, say this, that I have not approached
the cause at the request of the Sicilians? or that the desire of those most excellent
and most faithful allies ought not to be of great influence with these judges? If you
dare to say that which Caius Verres, whose enemy you are pretending to be, wishes
especially to be believed,—that the Sicilians did not make this request to
me,—you will in the first place be supporting the cause of your enemy, against
whom it is considered that no vague presumption, but that an actual decision has been
come to, in the fact that has become notorious, that all the Sicilians have begged for
me as their advocate against his injuries.
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