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I seem to be making a very extensive charge; listen now to the manner in which I
make it. For I am not embracing everything in one charge for the sake of making an
impression, or of exaggerating his guilt. When I say that he left nothing whatever
of the sort in the whole province, know that I am speaking according to the strict
meaning of the words, and not in the spirit of an accuser. I will speak even more
plainly; I will say that he has left nothing in any one's house, nothing even in the
towns, nothing in public places, not even in the temples, nothing in the possession
of any Sicilian, nothing in the possession of any Roman citizen; that he has left
nothing, in short, which either came before his eyes or was suggested to his mind,
whether private property or public, or profane or sacred, in all Sicily.
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