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What again am I to select as
an outstanding instance of his sagacity in the pro
Milone? The fact that he refrains from proceeding
to his statement of facts until he has cleared the
ground by disposing of the previous verdicts against
the accused?1 The manner in which he turns the
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odium of the attempted ambush against Clodius,
although as a matter of fact the encounter was a
pure chance? The way in which he at one and the
same time praised the actual deed and showed that
it was forced upon his client? Or the skill with
which he avoided making Milo plead for consideration and undertook the role of suppliant himself?2
It would be an endless task to quote all the instances
of his sagacity, how he discredited Cotta,3 how he
put forward his own case in defence of Ligarius4 and
saved Cornelius5 by his bold admission of the facts.
It is enough, I think,
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