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But Sicily could not endure that in the case of the
public corn; she did indeed bear it in the case of my own. Just as if that valuation
was more just when your advantage was concerned, than when that of the Roman people
was; or, as if the conduct which I speak of and that which you adopted, differed
only in the description of the injury, and not in the magnitude of the sum involved.
But that granary they can by no means bear, not even if everything else be remitted;
not even if they were for ever hereafter delivered from all the injuries and
distresses which they have suffered while you were praetor, still they say that they
could not by any possibility support that granary and that valuation.
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