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But now, as to what he adds, that the inhabitants of Pompeii were excited by Sulla to join
that conspiracy and that abominable wickedness, what sort of statement that I am quite unable
to understand. Do the people of Pompeii appear to have joined the conspiracy? Who has ever
said so? or when was there the slightest suspicion of this fact? “He separated
then,” says he, “from the settlers, in order that when he had excited
dissensions and divisions within, he might be able to have the town and nation of Pompeii in
his power.” In the first place, every circumstance of the dissension between the
natives of Pompeii and the settlers was referred to the patrons of the town, being a matter of
long standing, and having been going on many years. In the second place, the matter was
investigated by the patrons in such a way, that Sulla did not in any particular disagree with
the opinions of the others. And lastly, the settlers themselves understand that the natives of
Pompeii were not more denuded by Sulla than they themselves were.
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