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Although, what are those numerous instances of wicked men? For when in a cause of
such importance, when in the case of a charge of such gravity, the defendant has
begun to say that anything has frequently been done, those who hear him are
expecting precedents drawn from ancient tradition; from old records and old
documents, full of dignity, full of antiquity.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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