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That man, the justest of all men, and the most
remote from covetousness, declares that he will investigate the affair himself, and
bids him come prepared to plead his cause at the eighth hour. It was not difficult
to see what that dishonest and wicked man was designing. And, indeed, he did not
himself very much disguise it, and the woman could not hold her tongue. It was
understood that his intention was, that, after he, without any pleading taking
place, and without any witnesses being called, had condemned Sthenius, then,
infamous that he was, he should cause the man, a man of noble birth, of mature age,
and his own host, to be cruelly punished by scourging. And as this was notorious, by
the advice of his friends and connections, Sthenius fled from there to Rome. He preferred trusting himself to the winter
and to the waves, rather than not escape that common tempest and calamity of all the
Sicilians.
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