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When the cause came to be heard, all who were defending Sopater were without any
fear or any anxiety. No crime had been committed; the matter had been decided;
Verres had received the money. Who could doubt how it would turn out? The matter is
not summed up that day; the court breaks up; Timarchides comes a second time to
Sopater. He says that his accusers were promising a much larger sum to the praetor
than what he had given, and that if he were wise he would consider what he had best
do. The man, though he was a Sicilian, and a defendant—that is to say,
though he had little chance of obtaining justice—and was in an unfortunate
position, still would not bear with or listen to Timarchides any longer. Do, said
he, whatever you please; I will not give any more And this, too, was the advice of
his friends and defenders; and so much the more, because Verres, however he might
conduct himself on the trial, still had with him on the bench some honourable men of
the Syracusan community, who had also been on the bench with Sacerdos when this same
Sopater had been acquitted. They considered that it was absolutely impossible for
the same men, who had formerly acquitted Sopater, to condemn him now on the same
charge, supported by the same witnesses. And so with this one hope they came before
the court.
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