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And though
all these things were settled in this way, after so many years and even ages, Verres
was found not only to change, but entirely to overturn them, and to convert to
purposes of his own most infamous profit those regulations which had long ago been
instituted and established for the safety of the allies and the benefit of the
republic. In the first instance he appointed certain men, collectors of the tenths
in name, in reality the ministers and satellites of his desires; by whom I will show
that the province was for three years so harassed and plundered, O judges, that it
will take many years and a long series of wise and incorruptible governors to
recover it.
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