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I am aware, O priests, that I have said
more things which are foreign to this cause, than either your opinion is
likely to approve of, or than my own inclination prompted. But I was anxious
to be acquitted in your eyes; and, further, your kindness in listening to me
with attention carried me on to say more than I had intended. But I will
make amends for this by the brevity of that part of the speech which relates
to the actual matter now brought under your examination; and as the affair
is divided into two heads,—one relating to the laws of religion,
and the other to the laws of the state, —I will pass over the
question of religion, which would take a longer time to discuss, and speak
to the point of what is the law of the state.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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