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has been given already, and so let it suffice. But I deemed it necessary to explain the reasons why I undertook my second journey to Sicily1 because absurd and irrational stories are being told about it. If, therefore, the account I have now given appears to anyone more rational, and if anyone believes that it supplies sufficient excuses for what took place, then I shall regard that account as both reasonable and sufficient.
1 i.e. Plato's third Sicilian visit (as he does not count the first), cf. Plat. L. 7.330c, Plat. L. 7.337e.