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What! are they the men of
Aetna alone who say this? Yes, the
Centuripans also, who are in occupation of far the largest part of the Aetnaean
district, to whose ambassadors, most noble men, Andron and Artemon, their senate
gave commissions which had reference to their city in his public capacity,
concerning those injuries which the citizens of Centuripa sustained not in their own
territories, but in those of others. The senate and people of Centuripa did not
choose to send ambassadors; but the Centuripan cultivators of the soil, which is the
greatest body of such men in Sicily, a body
of most honourable and most wealthy men, themselves selected three ambassadors,
fellow citizens of their own, in order that by their evidence you might be made
aware of the calamities, not of one district only, but of almost all Sicily. For the Centuripans are engaged as
cultivators of the soil in almost every part of Sicily. And they are the more important and the more trustworthy
witnesses against you, because, the other cities ore influenced by their own
distresses alone, the Centuripans as they occupy land in almost every district, have
felt the injuries and wrongs of the other cities also.
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