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On which account I make no complaint of violated
hospitality, and of your abominable wickedness in violating it; I say this not to
those who know Sthenius,—that is to say, not to any one of those who have
been in Sicily; (for no one who has is
ignorant in how great authority he lived in his own city, in what great honour and
consideration among all the Sicilians;) but I say it that those, too, who have not
been in the province, may be able to understand who he was in whose case you
established such a precedent, that both on account of the iniquity of the deed, as
well as on account of the rank of the man, it appeared scandalous and intolerable to
every one.
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