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not distrusting you, if I understand him aright, but perceiving that
no defendant can defeat the charges and calumnies which the prosecutor prefers
with the advantage of prior speech, unless every juryman receives with goodwill
the pleas of the second speaker, as an obligation of piety to the gods by whom
he has sworn, and forms no final conclusion upon the whole case until he has
given a fair and impartial hearing to both sides.
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