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But you were able to see clearly in the former pleading, that many Roman citizens
from Sicily, most honourable men, gave
evidence about most important transactions, both as to injuries which they had
received themselves, and injuries which they knew had been inflicted on others. I, O
judges, affirm in this way what I know. I seem to myself to have done an action
acceptable to the Sicilians in seeking to avenge their injuries with my own labour,
at my own peril, and at the risk of incurring enmity in some quarters; and I am sure
that this which I am doing is not less acceptable to our own citizens, who think
that the safety of their rights, of their liberty, of their properties and fortunes,
consists in tho condemnation of that man.
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