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On
which account, while speaking of his Sicilian praetorship, I will not object to your
listening to me on this condition, that if he has been approved of by any
description of men whatever; whether of Sicilians or of our own citizens; if he has
been approved of by any class of men, whether agriculturists, or graziers, or
merchants; if he has not been the common enemy and plunderer of all these
men,—if, in short, he has ever spared any man in any thing, then you, too,
shall spare him.
Now, as soon as Sicily fell to him by lot
as his province, immediately at Rome,
while he was yet in the city, before he departed, he began to consider within
himself and to deliberate with his friends, by what means he might make the greatest
sum of money in that province in one year. He did not like to learn while he was
acting, (though he was not entirely ignorant and inexperienced in the oppression of
a province,) but he wished to arrive in Sicily with all his plans for plunder carefully thought of and
prepared.
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