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Are your lusts, O Verres, to be so atrocious, that the provinces of the Roman
people, that foreign nations, cannot limit and cannot endure them? Unless whatever
you see, whatever you hear, whatever you desire, whatever you think of, is in a
moment to be subservient to your nod, is at once to obey your lust and desire, are
men to be sent into people's houses? are the houses to be stormed? Are
cities—not only the cities of enemies now reduced to peace—but
are the cities of our allies and friends to be forced to have recourse to violence
and to arms, in order to be able to repel from themselves and from their children
the wickedness and lust of a lieutenant of the Roman people? For I ask of you, were
you besieged at Lampsacus? Did that
multitude begin to burn the house in which you were staying? Did the citizens of
Lampsacus wish to burn a lieutenant of
the Roman people alive? You cannot deny it; for I have your own evidence which you
gave before Nero,—I have the letters which you sent to him. Recite the
passage from his evidence.
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