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Hortensius will then be consul with the chief command and authority, but I shall be
aedile—that is, I shall be a little more than a private individual; and
yet this business, which I promise that I am going to advocate, is of such a nature,
so pleasing and agreeable to the Roman people, that the consul himself will appear
in this cause, if that be possible, even less than a private individual in
comparison of me. All those things shall not only be mentioned, but even, where
certain matters have been explained, shall be fully discussed, which for the last
ten years, ever since the office of the judge has been transferred to the senate,
has been nefariously and wickedly done in the decision of judicial matters.
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