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I will avail myself of what is granted to me; at all events you must judge that
those men, who, as he himself wishes it to be believed, are most hostile to him, did
not contribute money for his honour and for his monuments of their own free will.
And that this may be most easily understood, ask any one you please of the witnesses
whom I shall produce, who are witnesses from Sicily, whether a Roman citizen or a Sicilian, and one too who
appears most hostile to you, who says that he has been plundered by you, whether he
contributed anything in his own name to the statue? You will not find one man to
deny it In truth they all contributed.
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