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Here now if you say that you were offended with Verres, I will grant you that and allow
it; if you complain that he did you any injury, I will defend him and deny it. Secondly,
I say that of the injury which was done to you no one of us ought to be a more severe
avenger than you yourself, to whom it is said to have been done. If you afterwards
became reconciled to him, if you were often at his house, if he after that supped with
you, do you prefer to be considered as acting with treachery or by collusion with him? I
see that one of these alternatives is inevitable, but in this matter I will have no
contention with you to prevent your adopting which you please.
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