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In the case of so enormous, so atrocious, so singular a crime, as this one which has
been committed so rarely, that, if it is ever heard of, it is accounted like a portent
and prodigy—what arguments do you think, O Caius Erucius, you as the accuser
ought to use? Ought you not to prove the singular audacity of him who is accused of it?
and his savage manners, and brutal nature, and his life devoted to every sort of vice
and crime, his whole character, in short, given up to profligacy and abandoned? None of
which things have you alleged against Sextus Roscius, not even for the sake of making
the imputation.
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