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However, be it so; the
case is evident; there was no one who did not say that he had heard this distinctly;
all the most respectable men were most undoubted witnesses of it; there was no one
in all Sicily who did not know that the tenths belonged to the praetor, no one who
had not heard Apronius frequently say so; moreover, there was a fine body of
settlers at Syracuse, many Roman
knights, men of the highest consideration, out of which number the judges must be
selected, who could not possibly decide in any other manner. Scandilius does not
cease to demand judges; then that innocent man, who was so eager to efface that
suspicion, and to remove it from himself, says that he will assign judges from his
own retinue.
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