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On which account it is your business, O judges, to select him who you
think can most easily sustain this great cause and trial with integrity, with diligence,
with wisdom, and with authority. If you prefer Quintus Caecilius to me, I shall not
think that I am surpassed in dignity; but take you care that the Roman people do not
think that a prosecution as honest, as severe, as diligent as this would have been in my
hands, was neither pleasing to yourselves nor to your body.
