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And therefore, I seem to myself,
O judges, to have undertaken to uphold an important, and very failing, and almost
neglected part of the republic, and by so doing to be acting not more for the
benefit of my own reputation than of yours. For I have come forward to diminish the
unpopularity of the courts of justice, and to remove the reproaches which are
levelled at them; in order that, when this cause has been decided according to the
wish of the Roman people, the authority of the courts of justice may appear to have
been re-established in some degree by my diligence; and in order that this matter
may be so decided that an end may be put at length to the controversy about the
tribunals;
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