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This Gavius whom I am speaking of, a citizens of Cosa, when he (among that vast number of Roman
citizens who had been treated in the same way) had been thrown by Verres into
prison, and somehow or other had escaped secretly out of the stone-quarries, and had
come to Messana, being now almost within
sight of Italy and of the walls of
Rhegium, and being revived, after that
fear of death and that darkness, by the light, as it were, of liberty and of the
fragrance of the laws, began to talk at Messana, and to complain that he, a Roman citizen, had been thrown
into prison. He said that he was now going straight to Rome, and that he would meet Verres on his arrival there.
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