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The states have never before this man's
time given any public evidence against any one. And they would have borne even this
man himself, if he had sinned against them like a man, in any ordinary manner; or in
short, in any one single kind of tyranny. But as they were unable to endure luxury,
cruelty, avarice, and pride, when they had lost by the wickedness and lust of one
man all their own advantages, all their own rights, and all fruits of the kindness
of the senate and the Roman people, they determined either to avenge themselves for
the injuries they had suffered from that man by your instrumentality or if they
seemed to you unworthy of receiving aid and assistance at your hands, then to leave
their cities and their homes, since they had already left their fields, having been
driven out of them by his injuries.
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