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You must, therefore, inevitably confess that
the Sicilians are hostile to you; since they have addressed to the consuls petitions
of the gravest moment directed against you, and have entreated me to undertake this
cause, and the advocacy of their safety; since, though they were forbidden to come
by the praetor, and hindered by four quaestors, they still have thought every one's
threats and every danger insignificant, in comparison with their safety; since at
the former pleading they gave their evidence so earnestly and so bitterly, that
Hortensius said that Artemo, the deputy of Centuripa, end the witness authorized by
the public council there, was an accuser, not a witness. In truth he, together with
Andron, a most honourable and trustworthy man, both on account of his virtue and
integrity, and also on account of his eloquence, was appointed by his
fellow-citizens as their deputy in order that he might be able to explain in the
most intelligible and clear manner the numerous and various injuries which they have
sustained from Verres.
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