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It is only a conjecture; but no one can be a good judge who is not influenced by
such certain grounds of suspicion. You know the man, you know the custom of all
men,—how gladly any one who has taken a chief of pirates or of the enemy,
allows him to be seen openly by all men. But of all the body of citizens and
settlers at Syracuse, I never saw one
man, O judges, who said that he had seen that captain of the pirates who had been
taken; though all men, as is the regular custom, flocked to the prison, asked for
him, and were anxious to see him. What happened to make that man be kept so
carefully out of sight, that no one was ever able to get a glimpse of him, even by
accident? Though all the seafaring men at Syracuse, who had often heard of the name of that captain, who had
often been alarmed by him, wished to feed their eyes on, and to gratify their minds
with his torture and execution, yet no one was allowed even to see him.
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