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Oh! the noble murmur
of the crowd in the temple of Bellona! You recollect, O judges, when it was getting
towards evening, and when mention had been made a short time before of this disaster
at Temsa, when no one was found who could be sent into those districts with a
military command, that some one said that Verres was not far from Temsa. You
recollect how universally every one murmured; how openly the chief men repudiated
the suggestion. And does the man who has been convicted of so many accusations by so
many witnesses, now place any hope in the votes of those judges, who have already
openly condemned him, even before his cause was heard?
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