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Are you waiting to see what these men also will decide? If he had deprived you of
your office, he would have treated you with less insult, than when he abrogated and
annulled the things which you had done in your office. Nor did he behave in this way
in that matter alone, but he had done the same in many other matters of the greatest
importance, before I arrived in Sicily. For
he ordered your friends, the palaestra people, to restore his property to Heraclius
the Syracusan, and the people of Bidis to restore his property to Epicrates, and
Appius Claudius his to his ward at Drepanum; and, if Letilius had not arrived in Sicily with letters a little too soon, in less than
thirty days Metellus would have annulled your whole three years' praetorship.
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