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But, however, I
give up and grant the whole of this, if you say that the vessel was built with your
money. But, O most demented of men, are you not aware that this ground was cut from
under your feet by those very friends of yours, the Mamertines themselves, in the
previous pleading? For Heius, the chief man of the city,—the chief man of
that deputation which was sent to utter a panegyric on you, said that the ship had
been built for you by the public labour of the Mamertines, and that a Mamertine
Senator had been appointed by public authority to superintend the building of it.
The only thing that remains is the materials. And this you yourself compelled the
Rhegians to furnish at the public expense, as they say themselves (not that you can
deny it), because the Mamertines have no proper materials.
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