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Do not therefore, alienate from your cause the inclinations of those orders
of men which preside over the courts of justice with the greatest authority and dignity. No
one, has attempted to annul the decision which has been given; nothing of that sort has been
proposed. What Caecilius always thought while grieved at the calamity which had befallen his
brother, was, that the power of the judges ought to be preserved unimpaired, but that the
severity of the law required to be mitigated.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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