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[3] venisse tempus aiebant non iam ut commoda sua1, sed ut vitam salutemque totius provinciae defenderem; sese iam ne deos quidem in suis urbibus ad quos confugerent habere, quod eorum2 simulacra sanctissima C. Verres ex delubris religiosissimis sustulisset; quas res luxuries in flagitiis, crudelitas in suppliciis, avaritia in rapinis, superbia in contumeliis efficere potuisset, eas omnis sese hoc uno praetore per triennium pertulisse; rogare et orare ne illos supplices aspernarer quos me incolumi nemini supplices esse oporteret.


1 sua et ut om. p

2 num quod deorum? (iv, §151)

M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.

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