If any one of you, O judges, or of these who are present here, marvels perhaps at me,
that I, who have for so many years been occupied in public causes and trials in such a
manner that I have defended many men but have prosecuted no one could now on a sudden
change my usual purpose, and descend to act as accuser;—he, if he becomes
acquainted with the cause and reason of my present intention, will both approve of what
I am doing, and will think, I am sure, that no one ought to be preferred to me as
manager of this cause.
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