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However, so be it. Let your conduct be
responsible all the time that you were praetor. Did you still, when you became a
private man, and when you became defendant—yes, and when you were all but
condemned,—did you still, I say, detain the captain of our enemies in your
private house? One month, a second month, almost a year, in fact, after they were
taken, were the pirates in your house; where they would be still, if it had not been
for me, that is to say, if it had not been for Marcus Acilius Glabrio, the praetor,
who, at my demand, ordered them to be brought up and to be committed to prison.
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