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You must either say that these things are not so;
or that Caius Aquillius, being such a man as he is, on his oath, is to establish this
law in the state: that he whose agent does not object to every trial which any one
demands against him, whose agent dares to appeal from the praetor to the tribunes, is
not defended at all, and may rightly have his goods taken possession of; may properly,
while miserable, absent, and ignorant of it, have all the embellishments of his
fortunes, all the ornaments of his life, taken from him with the greatest disgrace and
ignominy. And this seems reasonable to no one.
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