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I am resolved not to permit the praetor or the judges to be hanged in this cause. I
will not permit the matter to be delayed till the lictors of the consuls can go and
summon the Sicilians, whom the servants of the consuls elect did not influence
before, when by an unprecedented course of proceeding they sent for them all; I will
not permit those miserable men, formerly the allies and friends of the Roman people,
now their slaves and suppliants, to lose not only their rights and fortunes by their
tyranny, but to be deprived of even the power of bewailing their condition;
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