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When I perceived that their indignation at that man's injuries was not only not
less, but almost greater than that of the rest of the Sicilians, then I explained my
own intentions to them, and my whole plan and system with reference to the whole of
the business which I had undertaken; then I exhorted them not to be wanting to the
common cause and the common safety, and to rescind that panegyric which they had
voted a few days before, being compelled, a, they said, by violence and fear.
Accordingly, O judges, the Syracusans, that man's clients and friends, do this.
First of all, they produce to me the public documents which they had carefully
stored up in the most sacred part of the treasury; in which they show me that
everything, which I have said had been taken away, was entered, and even more things
than I was able to mention. And they were entered in this way. “What had
been taken out of the temple of Minerva .. This,... and that.”
“What was missing out of the temple of Jupiter.” “What was missing out of the temple of
Bacchus.” As each individual had had the charge of protecting and
preserving those things, so it was entered; that each, when according to law he gave
in his accounts, being bound to give up what he had received, had begged that he
might be pardoned for the absence of these things and that all had accordingly been
released from liability on that account, and that it was kept secret; all which
documents I took care to have sealed up with the public seal and brought away.
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