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I imagine that senseless man must
have been laughed at by his own counselors, and warned that these documents would do
him no good; that if the charge were made, there would be even more suspicion owing
to these extraordinary precautions of the praetor. He had already behaved with such
folly in many cases, as even publicly to order whatever he pleased to be expunged
out of, or entered in the records of different cities. All which things he now finds
out are of no use to him, since he is convicted by documents, and witnesses, and
authorities which are all undeniable.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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