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Will you dare to say, either that the
agriculturists, that all the Sicilians, in short, think well of you, or that it has
nothing to do with the subject what they think? You will not dare to say this, nor
if you were to wish to do so would you be allowed. For those equestrian statues
erected by the Sicilians, whom you affect to despise, and by the agriculturists,
deprive you of the power of saying that; the statues, I mean, which a little while
before you came to the city you ordered to be erected and to have inscriptions put
upon them, to serve as a check to the inclinations of all your enemies and accusers.
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