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What, if I prove, O judges, that
these two treaties with the two states were of such a nature, that in the case of
the people of Tauromenium it was
expressly provided for and guarded against in the treaty, “that they were
not bound to furnish a vessel;” but that in the case of the Mamertines it
was set down and written in the treaty itself, “that they were bound to
furnish a vessel;” but that Verres, in opposition to both treaties,
compelled the Tauromenians to furnish one, and excused the Mamertines? Can it, then,
be doubtful to any one that, while Verres was praetor, that merchant-vessel was a
greater assistance to the Mamertines than the treaty was to the Tauromenians? Let
the treaties be read. [The treaties of the Mamertines and the Tauromenians with the
Roman people are read.]
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