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Therefore, O judges, this
complaint was brought to me by Sicily most
especially and beyond all other complaints. I have undertaken this task, induced by
the tears of others, not by any desire of my own for glory; in order that false
condemnation, and imprisonment, and chains, and axes, and the torture of our allies,
and the execution of innocent men, and last of all, that the bodies of the lifeless
dead, and the agony of living parents and relations, may not he a source of profit
to our magistrates. If, by that man's condemnation obtained through your good faith
and strict justice, O judges, I remove this fear from Sicily, I shall think enough has been done in discharge of my duty,
and enough to satisfy their wishes who have entreated this assistance from me.
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