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I will call back the Roman knight,
Lucius Flavius, if you wish; since at the previous pleading, being influenced, as
your advocates are in the habit of saying, by some unusual prudence, but, (as all
men are aware,) being overpowered by your own conscience, and by the authority of my
witnesses, you did not put a question to any single witness. Let Flavius be asked,
if you like, who Lucius Herennius was, the man who, he says, was a money-changer at
Leptis; who, though he had more than a
hundred Roman citizens in the body of settlers at Syracuse, who not only knew him, but defended him with their tears
and with entreaties to you, was still publicly executed by you in the sight of all
the Syracusans. I am very willing that this witness of mine should also be refuted,
and that it should be demonstrated end proved by you that that Herennius had been
one of Sertorius's soldiers.
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