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But now, O judges, if you neglect the fortunes of the Sicilians,—if you
show no anxiety about the treatment the allies of the Roman people receive from our
magistrates,—at all events undertake and defend the common cause of the
Roman people. I say that the cultivators have been driven out,—that the
lands subject to tribute have been devastated and drained by Verres—that
the whole province has been depopulated and tyrannised over. All these things I
prove by the public documents of the cities, and by the private evidence of most
unimpeachable men.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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