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There is, there is, O
judges, no room for any one to err in respect of this man. He is not such a
criminal, this is not such a time, this is not such a tribunal, (I fear to seem to
say anything too arrogant before such men,) even the advocate is not such a man,
that a criminal so guilty, so abandoned, so plainly convicted, can be either
stealthily or openly snatched out of his hands with impunity. When such men as these
are judges, shall I not be able to prove that Caius Verres has taken bribes contrary
to the laws? Will such men venture to assert that they have not believed so many
senators, so many Roman knights, so many cities, so many men of the highest honour
from so illustrious a province, so many letters of whole nations and of private
individuals? that they have resisted so general a wish of the Roman people?
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