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And in the first place, O judges, that man said that the
people of Tyndaris had sold this
statue to Caius Marcellus Aeserninus, who is here present. And he hoped that Caius
Marcellus himself would assert thus much for his sake though it never seemed to me
to be very likely that a young man born in that rank, the patron of Sicily, would lend his name to that fellow to enable
him to transfer his guilt to another. But still I made such provision, and took such
precaution against every possible bearing of the case, that if ally one had been
found who was ever so anxious to take the guilt and crime of Verres upon himself,
still he would not have taken anything by his motion, for I brought down to court
such witnesses, and I had with me such written documents, that it could not have
been possible to have entertained a doubt about that man's actions.
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