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I, who as all men know, am so much concerned in the forum and the courts of justice,
that there is no one of the same age, or very few, who have defended more causes, and
who spend all my time which can be spared from the business of my friends in these
studies and labours, in order that I may be more prepared for forensic practice and more
ready at it, yet, (may the gods be favourable to me as I am saying what is true!)
whenever the thought occurs to me of the day when the defendant having been summoned, I
have to speak, I am not only agitated in my mind, but a shudder runs over my whole body.
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