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And to say nothing of other nations, judge of the Syracusans themselves. For when I
went to Syracuse, I originally
believed what I had heard at Rome from
that man's friends, that the city of Syracuse, on account of the inheritance of Heraclius, was no less
friendly to him than the city of the Mamertines, because of their participation in
all his booty and robberies. And at the same time I was afraid that, owing to the
influence of the high-born and beautiful women at whose will he had directed all the
measures of his praetorship for three years, and of the men to whom they were
married, I should be opposed not only by an excessive lenity, but even by a feeling
of liberality towards that man, if I were to seek for any evidence out of the public
records of the Syracusans.
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