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Then at last he said, “Come, state
your case.” Sopater began to implore him by the good faith of gods and
man, to hear the cause in company with the rest of the bench. He orders the
witnesses to be summoned instantly. One or two of them give their evidence briefly.
No questions are asked. The crier proclaims that the case is closed. Verres, as if
he were afraid that Petilius, having either finished or adjourned the private cause
on which he was engaged, might return to the bench with the rest, jumps down in
haste from his seat; he condemned an innocent man, one who had been acquitted by
Caius Sacerdos, without hearing him in his defence, by the joint sentence of a
secretary, a physician, and a soothsayer.
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