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Did you think that I would say nothing of such
serious matters as these? and that, at a crisis of such danger to the republic and
my own character, I would consult anything rather than my duty and my dignity? The
other consul elect sent for the Sicilians; some came, because Lucius Metellus was
praetor in Sicily. To them he speaks in
this manner: that he is the consul; that one of his brothers has Sicily for his province; that the other is to be
judge in all prosecutions for extortion; and that care had been taken in many ways
that there should be no possibility of Verres being injured.
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