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Who then is there who
can deny that it is right that the trial should be conducted according to the wish of
those men for whose sake the law has been established? All Sicily, if it could speak with one voice, would say
this:—“All the gold, all the silver, all the ornaments which were in
my cities, in my private houses, or in my temples,—all the rights which I had
in any single thing by the kindness of the senate and Roman people,—all that
you, O Caius Verres, have taken away and robbed me of, on which account I demand of you
a hundred million of sesterces according to the
law.” If the whole province, as I have said, could speak, it would say this,
and as it could not speak, it has of its own accord chosen an advocate to urge these
points, whom it has thought suitable.
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