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But if the man who lends money is to
blame, and not the man who has made a scandalous use of the money which has
been lent to him, then let that man be condemned who has made a sword and
sold it and not the man who with that sword has slain a citizen. Wherefore,
neither you, O Caius Memmius, ought to wish the senate, to support the
authority of which you have devoted yourself from your youth upwards, to
labour under such disrepute, nor ought I to speak in defence of conduct
which is not the subject of the present inquiry. For the cause of Postumus,
whatever it is, is at all events unconnected with the cause of the senate.
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