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Lastly, that, if all
the actions of Caius Verres are unexampled and unheard of instances of wickedness,
of audacity, of perfidy, of lust, of avarice, and of cruelty, an end worthy of such
a life and such actions may, by your sentence, overtake him; and that the republic,
and my own duty to it, may be content with my undertaking this one prosecution, and
that I may be allowed for the future to defend the good, instead of being compelled
to prosecute the infamous.
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