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For you know that the kings of Syria, the boyish sons of King Antiochus, have lately been at
Rome. And they came not on account of
the kingdom of Syria; for that they had
obtained possession of without dispute, as they had received it from their father
and their ancestors; but they thought that the kingdom of Egypt belonged to them and to Selene their mother.
When they, being hindered by the critical state of the republic at that time, were
not able to obtain the discussion of the subject as they wished before the senate,
they departed for Syria, their paternal
kingdom. One of them—the one whose name is Antiochus—wished to
make his journey through Sicily. And so,
while Verres was praetor, he came to Syracuse.
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