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For you can recollect that this was what men said at the time; that
Cethegus, because he hated the man and because he wished to get rid of such rascality out of
the republic, and because he saw that he who had confessed that, while a judge, he had
secretly and irregularly taken money from a defendant, could not possibly get off, had given
him treacherous advice. If Cethegus behaved dishonestly in this matter, he appears to me to
have wished to get rid of an adversary; but if the case was such that Stalenus could not
possibly deny that he had received the money, (and nothing could be more dangerous or more
disgraceful than to confess for what purpose he had received it,) the advice of Cethegus is
not to be blamed.
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