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I will not seek to excite any odium against you, not even out of
the circumstances that, while such a man was lying in prison, in darkness, in dirt
and filth, all permission to visit him was refuted by your tyrannical prohibition to
his aged father, and to his youthful son. I will even pass over this, that every
time that you came to Panormus during
that eighteen months, (for all that time was Apollonius kept in prison,) the senate
of Panormus came to you as suppliants,
with the public magistrates and priests, praying and entreating you to release some
time or other that miserable and innocent man from that cruel treatment. I will omit
all these statements; though, were I to choose to follow them up, I could easily
show by your cruelty towards others, that every channel of mercy from the judges to
yourself has been long since blocked up.
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