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And so when the business of objecting
to the judges was over, I hoped that you and I had now one common task before us. I
thought that my good faith and diligence was approved of, not only by those to whom
I was known, but even by strangers. And I was not mistaken: for in the comitia for
my election, when that man was employing boundless bribery against me, the Roman
people decided that his money, which had no influence with me when put in opposition
to my own good faith, ought to have no influence with them to rob me of my honour.
On the day when you first, O judges, were summoned to this place, and sat in
judgment on this criminal, who was so hostile to your order, who was so desirous of
a new constitution, of a new tribunal and new judges, as not to be moved at the
sight of you and of your assembled body?
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