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See now, what a difference there is between
you, in whose name days of festival are kept among the Sicilians, and those splendid
Verrean games, are celebrated; to whom gilt statues are erected at Rome, presented by the commonwealth of Sicily, as we see inscribed upon
them;—see, I say, what a difference there is between you and this
Sicilian, who was condemned by you, the patron of Sicily. Him very many cities of Sicily praise by public resolutions in his favour, by their own
evidence, by deputations went hither with that object. You, the patron of all the
Sicilians, the solitary state of the Mamertini, the partner of your thefts and
crimes, praises publicly; and yet in such a way that, by a new process, the deputies
themselves injure your cause, though the deputation praises you. These other states
all publicly accuse you, complain of you, impeach you by letters, by deputations, by
evidence; and, if you are acquitted, think themselves utterly ruined.
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