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I, if Metellus had not compelled the men of Centuripa to replace the statues,
should say, “See, O judges, what exceeding and bitter indignation the
injuries of that man have implanted in the minds of our allies and friends; when
that most friendly and faithful city of Centuripa, which is, connected with the
Roman people by so many reciprocal good offices, that it has not only always loved
our republic, but has also shown its attachment to the very name of Roman in the
person of every private individual, has decided by public resolution and by the
public authority that the statues of Caius Verres ought not to exist in
it.” I should recite the decrees of the people of Centuripa; I should
extol that city, as with the greatest truth I might; I should relate that ten
thousand of those citizens, the bravest and most faithful of our
allies,—that every one of the whole people resolved, that there ought to
be no monument of that man in their city. I should say this if Metellus had not
replaced the statues.
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