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To
return again to Marcellus. Judge of the case, O judges, in this way; think that more
gods were lost to the Syracusans owing to the arrival of Verres, than even were
owing to the victory of Marcellus. In truth, he is said to have sought diligently
for the great Archimedes, a man of the highest genius and skill, and to have been
greatly concerned when he heard that he had been killed; but that other man sought
for everything which he did seek for, not for the purpose of preserving it, but of
carrying it away.
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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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