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And in the case of all of us, if any one of us turns
aside ever so little from the right path, there will follow, not that silent opinion
of men which you were formerly accustomed to despise, but a severe and fearless
judgment of the Roman people. You have, O Quintus, no relationship, no connection
with that man. In the case of this man you can have none of those excuses with which
you formerly used to defend your excessive zeal in any trial. You are bound to take
care above all things, that the things which that fellow used to say in the
province, when he said that he did all that he was doing out of his confidence in
you, shall not be thought to be true.
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