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What topic of accusation or complaint shall I urge first, O judges? That the power,
and honour, and authority of a lieutenant, of a quaestor, yes, even of a praetor,
was given to a Sicilian? If you were so occupied with feasts and women as to be
prevented from taking the command yourself, where were your quaestors? where were
your lieutenants? where was the corn valued at three denarii? where were the mules? where were the tents? where were all the
numerous and splendid badges of honour conferred and bestowed by the senate and
people of Rome on their magistrates and
lieutenants? Lastly, where were your prefects and tribunes? If there was no Roman
citizen worthy of that employment, what had become of the cities which had always
remained true to the alliance and friendship of the Roman people? What had become of
the city of Segesta? of the city of Centuripa? which both by old services, by good
faith, by antiquity of alliance, and even by relationship, are connected with the
name of the Roman people.
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