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They said
that the time had come for me to defend not only the advantages they enjoyed, but even
the life and safety of the whole province, that they had now not even any gods in their
cities to whom they could flee, because Caius Verres had carried off their most sacred
images from the very holiest temples. That whatever luxury could accomplish in the way
of vice, cruelty in the way of punishment, avarice in the way of plunder, or arrogance
in the way of insult, had all been borne by them for the last three years, while this
one man was praetor. That they begged and entreated that I would not reject them as
suppliants, who, while I was in safety, ought to be suppliants to no one.
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