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Because he had imprisoned there many Roman citizens who were his
prisoners, and because he ordered the other pirates to be put there too, he was
aware that if he committed this counterfeit captain of the pirates to the same
custody, a great many men in those quarries would inquire for the real captain. And
therefore he does not venture to commit the man to this best of all and safest of
all places of confinement. In fact he is afraid of the whole of Syracuse. He sends the man away. Where to?
Perhaps to Lilybaeum. I see; he was not
then so entirely afraid of the seafaring men? By no means, O judges. To Panormus then? I understand; although indeed,
since he was taken within the Syracusan district, he ought, at all events, to have
been kept in prison at Syracuse, if he
was not to be executed there.
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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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