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Those who were
about to be tried avoided and dreaded him as an investigator and a judge; because,
although he was afraid of truth, he yet seemed not so much inclined by nature to mercy,
as drawn by circumstances to severity. I, although a man is presiding at this trial who
is both brave against audacity, and very merciful to innocence, would yet willingly
suffer myself to speak in behalf of Sextus Roscius either before that very acute judge
himself, or before other judges like him, whose very name those who have to stand a
trial shudder at even now.
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