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Every one else, not only Sicilians, but Roman
citizens too, settled this in their minds, that, since he had carried his
covetousness to such an extent, there was nothing which any one could expect to
preserve or retain in his own possession if it was admired ever so little by Verres.
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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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