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Now doubt, if you can, that he chose that man of all the
world to impose the worthless character of a false advocate on, whom he knew to be
most hostile to Sthenius, and most friendly to himself. And will you hesitate in
this case, O judges, to punish such enormous audacity and cruelty and injustice as
that of this man? Will you hesitate to follow the example of those judges, who, when
they had condemned Cnaeus Dolabella, rescinded the condemnation of Philodamus of
Opus, because a charge had been received against him not in his absence, which is of
all things the most unjust and the most intolerable, but after a commission had been
given him by his fellow-citizens to proceed to Rome as their ambassador? That precedent which the judges, in
obedience to the principles of equity, established in a less important cause, will
you hesitate to adopt in a cause of the greatest consequence, especially now that it
has been established by the authority of others?
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