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You see that Roman citizens were thrown in
crowds into the stone quarries; you see a multitude of your fellow-citizens heaped
together in a most unworthy place. Look now for all the traces of their departure
from that place, which are to be seen. There are none. Are they all dead of disease?
If he were able to urge this in his defence, still such a defence would find credit
with no one. But there is a word written in those documents, which that ignorant and
profligate man never noticed, and would not have understood if he had. Ἐκδικαιώθησαν, it says that is, according to the
Sicilian language, they were punished and put to death.
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