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And for the present I omit those things which will be
mentioned, and have been already mentioned by me in an irregular manner in different
parts of my speech—what the market-place of the Syracusans, which at the
entrance of Marcellus was preserved unpolluted by slaughter, on the arrival of
Verres overflowed with the blood of innocent Sicilians; that the harbour of the
Syracusans, which at that time was shut against both our fleets and those of the
Carthaginians, was, while Verres was praetor, open to Cilician pirates, or even to a
single piratical galley. I say nothing of the violence offered to people of noble
birth, of the ravishment of matrons, atrocities which then, when the city was taken,
were not committed, neither through the hatred of enemies, nor through military
licence, nor through the customs of war or the rights of victory. I pass over, I
say, all these things which were done by that man for three whole years. Listen
rather to acts which are connected with those matters of which I have hitherto been
speaking.
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