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Here will you dare to say also, “Among my judges that one is my intimate
friend, that one is a friend of my father?” Is it not the case that the
more acquainted or connected with you any one is, the more he is ashamed at the
charges brought against you? He is your father's friend—If your father
himself were your judge, what, in the name of the immortal gods, could you do when
he said this to you? ldquo;You, being in a province as praetor of the Roman people,
when you had to carry on a naval war, three years excused the Mamertines from
supplying the ship, which by treaty they were bound to supply; by those same
Mamertines a transport of the largest size was built for you at the public expense;
you exacted money from the cities on the pretest of the fleet; you discharged the
rowers for a bribe; when a pirate vessel had been taken by your quaestor, and by
your lieutenant, you removed the captain of the pirates from every one's sight; you
ventured to put to death men who were called Roman citizens, who were recognised as
such by many; you dared to take to your own house pirates, and to bring the captain
of the pirates into the court of justice from your own house.
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