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Is there, then, the slightest suspicion attaching to us after all these charges of the
prosecutor? Have they not been wholly cleared up? Have they not been refuted? Have they not
been scattered to the winds? And how has that been done? Because you gave me, O Triarius, a
charge which I could efface, which I could argue about which I could dilate upon; because it
was a charge of that sort which did not entirely depend on the witness, but which the judge
could by himself form his own opinion on.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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