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Even now I am surveying in my mind and thoughts
what party spirit will be shown by men; what throngs of men will meet; how great an
expectation the importance of the trial will excite; how greet a multitude of hearers
the infamy of Caius Verres will collect; how great an audience for my speech his
wickedness will draw together And when I think of these things, even now I am afraid as
to what I shall be able to say suitable to the hatred men bear him who are inimical and
hostile to him, and worthy of the expectation which all men will form, and of the
importance of the case.
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