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Do you
think then that any one will doubt that he who ought to be most hostile to you, who
has received the severest injuries from you, paid money on account of a statue to
you because he was compelled by violence and authoritative command, not out of
kindness and by his own free will? And I have neither counted up, nor been able to
count, O judges, the amount of this money, which is very large, and which has been
most shamelessly extorted from unwilling men, so as to estimate how much was
extorted from agriculturists, how much from traders who trade at Syracuse, at Agrigentum, at Panormus, at Lilybaeum; since
you see by even his own confession that it was extorted from most unwilling
contributors.
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