[15]
What can
there be, judges, so desirable for me in making this charge, as that Heius should
say this same thing? Nothing certainly; but let us not wish for what is difficult to
be obtained. Heius is a Mamertine. The state of the Mamertines alone, by a common
resolution, praises that man in the name of the city. To all the rest of the
Sicilians he is an object of hatred; by the Mamertines alone is he liked. But of
that deputation which has been sent to utter his praises, Heius is the chief man; in
truth, he is the chief man of his city, and too much occupied in discharging the
public duties imposed upon him to speak of his private injuries.
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