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About which, not to make a long speech, I will
merely say that Nero and his bench of judges came to that decision on the ground
that it was plain that Cornelius, his lictor, had been slain, and that they thought
it was not right that any one, even while avenging his own injuries, should have the
power to kill a man. And as to this I see that you were not by Nero's sentence
acquitted of atrocity, but that they were convicted of murder. And yet what sort of
a conviction was that? Listen, I entreat you, O judges, and do sometimes pity our
allies, and show that they ought to have, and that they have, some protection in
your integrity.
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