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Will
you pass over this serious accusation, or will you bring it forward? If you bring it
forward, will you charge that as a crime against another, which you did yourself at the
same time in the same province? Will you dare so to accuse another, that you cannot
avoid at the same time condemning yourself? If you omit the charge, what sort of a
prosecution will yours be, which from fear of danger to yourself, is afraid not only to
create a suspicion of a most certain and enormous crime, but even to make the least
mention of it? Corn was bought, on the authority of a decree of the senate, of the
Sicilians while Verres was praetor;
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