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And
they have born the injuries of many of our magistrates with such a disposition, that
they have never till this time fled by any public resolution to the altar of our
laws and to your protection; although they endured the misery of that year which so
prostrated them that they could not have been preserved through it, if Caius
Marcellus had not come among them, by some special providence, as it were, in order
that the safety of Sicily might be twice
secured by the same family. Afterwards, too, they experienced that terrible
government of Marcus Antonius. For they had had these principles handed down to them
from their ancestors, that the kindnesses of the Roman people to the Sicilians had
been so great, that they ought to think even the injustice of some of our men
endurable.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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