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Is this
the man, who when he was accused before that most illustrious man, Cnaeus Pompeius,
and when his enemies and accusers charged him, in terms calculated to excite odium
against him, rather than true, of having been ill affected to the republic on
account of his intimacy and his connections of hospitality with Caius Marius, was
acquitted by Cnaeus Pompeius with such language as showed that, from what had come
out at that very trial, Cnaeus Pompeius judged him most worthy of his own intimacy?
and moreover was defended and extolled by all the Sicilians in such a manner, that
Pompeius thought that by his acquittal he had earned, not only the gratitude of the
man himself, but that of the whole province? Lastly, is not he the man who had such
affection towards the republic, and also such great authority among his
fellow-citizens, that he alone in all Sicily, while you were praetor, did what not only no other Sicilian,
but what all Sicily even could not
do,—namely, prevented you from taking away any statue, any ornament, any
sacred vessel, or any public property from Thermae; and that too when there were
many remarkable beautiful things there, and though you coveted everything?
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