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They who were your counselors, who became acquainted with these things in your
company,—they who were supposed to be themselves menaced with that danger, who gave
no countenance to Autronius, who gave most important evidence against him,—are now
defending Publius Sulla, are countenancing him by their presence here; now that he is in
danger they declare that they were not deterred by the accusation of conspiracy from
countenancing the others, but by the guilt of the men. But for the time of my consulship, and
with respect to the charge of the greatest conspiracy, Sulla shall be defended by me. And this
partition of the cause between Hortensius and me has not been made by chance, or at random, O
judges, but as we saw that we were employed as defenders of a man against those accusations in
which we might have been witnesses, each of us thought that it would be best for him to
undertake that part of the case, concerning which he himself had been able to acquire some
knowledge, and to form some opinions with certainty.
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