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On these grounds now, even if I had not
undertaken this cause at the request of all the Sicilians; if the whole province had
not requested this favour of me; if my affection and love for the republic, and the
injury done to the credit of our order and of the courts of justice, had not
compelled me to do so; and if this had been my only reason, that you had so cruelly,
and wickedly, and abominably treated my friend and connection 1
Sthenius, to whom I had formed an extraordinary attachment in my quaestorship, of
whom I had the highest possible opinion, whom while I was in the province I knew to
be most zealous and earnest for my reputation,—I should still think I had
plenty of reason to incur the enmity of a most worthless man, in order to defend the
safety and fortunes of my friend.
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