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I think there is one way one course, and only one, left for me to take. I will place the facts before you; and they have in themselves such weight, that no eloquence I will not say of mine, for I have none but of any man's, is needed to excite your feelings. "This Gavius of Consa, of whom I speak, had been among the crowds of Roman citizens who had been thrown into prison under that man.
No one can possibly tell the tale so well as Cicero himself; and the passage from his speech for the prosecution is an admirable specimen both of his power of pathetic narrative and scathing denunciation, "How shall I speak of Publius Gavius, a citizen of Consa? With what powers of voice, with what force of language, with what sufficient indignation of soul, can I tell the tale?
The unhappy man cried out that he was a Roman citizen that he had the municipal franchise of Consa that he had served in a campaign with Lucius Pretius, a distinguished Roman knight, now engaged in business at Panormus, from whom Verres might ascertain the truth of his statement.
Compsa, a city of Italy, Conza, or Consa Concordia, an ancient city of the province of Triuli, in Italy, now in ruins Confluens Mosae et Rheni, the confluence of the Meuse and Rhine, or the point where the Meuse joins the Vahalis, or Waal, which little river branches out from the Rhine Pelino, al. Penlina; Caesar lays siege to it, C. i. 16; and obliges it to surrender, 24
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