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What virtue or what dignity did you think
existed in you, that you should attempt to transfer to yourself, and to take away
from these most trusty and most ancient patrons, so illustrious a body of clients as
that splendid province? Can you with your stupidity, and worthlessness, and laziness
defend the cause, I will not say of all Sicily, but even of one, the very meanest of the Sicilians? Was the
statue of Marcellus to serve you for a pillory for the clients of the Marcelli? Did
you out of his honour seek for punishments for those very men who had held him in
honour? What followed? What did you think would happen to your statues? was it that
which did happen? For the people of Tyndaris threw down the statue of Verres, which he had ordered to be
erected in his own honour near the Marcelli, and even on a higher pedestal, the very
moment that they heard that a successor had been appointed to him.
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