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When the thought of that unhappy Tyndaritan, and of that Segestan, comes across
me, then I consider at the same time the rights of the cities, and their duties.
Those cities which Publius Africanus thought fit to be adorned with the spoils of
the enemy, those Caius Verres has stripped, not only of those ornaments, but even of
their noblest citizens, by the most abominable wickedness. See what the people of
Tyndaris will willingly state.
“We were not among the seventeen tribes of Sicily. We, in all the Punic and Sicilian wars, always adhered to the
friendship and alliance of the Roman people; all possible aid in war, all attention
and service in peace, has been at all times rendered by us to the Roman
people.” Much, however, did their rights avail them, under that man's
authority and government!
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