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And
as this is the ease, were you endued with such insanity and audacity, as, in a
matter so clear, so thoroughly proved,—made so notorious even by you
yourself, to dare to corrupt the public records? But how did you corrupt them? Did
you not do it in such a way that, even if we all kept silence, still your own
handwriting would be sufficient to condemn you? Give me, it you please, the
document. Take it round to the judges; show it to them. Do you not see that the
whole of this entry, where he states that the charge was made against Sthenius in
his presence, is a correction? What was written there before? What blunder did he
correct when he made that erasure? Why, O judges, do you wait for proofs of this
charge from us? We say nothing; the books are before you, which cry out themselves
that they have been tampered with and amended.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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