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But concerning the public panegyric on him
this explanation was given: that at first, when the letters arrived from Verres
about the panegyric, a little while before my arrival, nothing had been decreed; and
after that, when some of his friends urged them that it ought to be decreed, they
were rejected with the greatest outcry and the bitterest reproaches; but when I was
on the point of arriving, then he who at that time was the chief governor had
commanded them to decree it, and that it had been decreed in such a manner that the
panegyric did him more damage than it could have done him good. So now, judges, do
you receive the truth of that matter from me just as it was shown to me by them.
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