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Therefore when at
Syracuse I was chiefly with Roman
citizens; I copied out their papers; I inquired into their injuries. As I was a long
time occupied by that business, in order to rest a little and to give my mind a
respite from care, I returned to those fine documents of Carpinatius; in which, in
company with some of the most honourable knights of the body of Roman settlers, I
unraveled the case of those Verrutii, whom I have mentioned before, but I expected
no aid at all, either publicly or privately, from the Syracusans, nor had I any idea
of asking for any. While I was doing this, on a sudden Heraclius came to me, who was
in office at Syracuse, a man of high
birth, who had been priest of Jupiter,
which is the highest honour among the Syracusans; he requests of me and of my
brother, if we have no objection, to go to their senate; that they were at that
moment assembled in full numbers in the senate-house, and he said that he made this
request to us to attend by command of the senate.
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