But if I had this cause so deserving, so illustrious, and so important; if either the
 Sicilians had not demanded this of me, or I had not had such an intimate connection with
 the Sicilians; and if I were to profess that what I am doing I am doing for the sake of
 the republic, in order that a man endowed with unprecedented covetousness, audacity, and
 wickedness,—whose thefts and crimes we have known to be most enormous and most infamous,
 not in Sicily alone, but in Achaia , in Asia , in Cilicia , in Pamphylia , and even at Rome , before the eyes of all men,—should be brought to trial by my
 instrumentality, still, who would there be who could find fault with my act or my
 intention?