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In this trial I think
that the cause of the Sicilian nation,—that the cause of the whole Roman
people, is undertaken by me; so that I have not to crush one worthless man alone, which
is what the Sicilians have requested, but to extinguish and extirpate every sort of
iniquity, which is what the Roman people has been long demanding. And how far I labour
in this cause, or what I may be able to effect, I would rather leave to the expectations
of others, than set forth in my own oration.
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