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What? Did Lucullus, who was at that time in Macedonia, know all these things better than you, O
Hortensius, who were at Rome? you to whom
Dio fled for aid? you who expostulated with Verres by letter in very severe terms
about the injuries done to Dio? Is an this new to you now, and unexpected? is this
the first time your ears have heard of this crime?, Did you hear nothing of it from
Dio, nothing from your own mother-in-law, that most admirable woman, Servilia, an
ancient friend and connection of Dio's? Are not my witnesses ignorant of many
circumstances which you are acquainted with? Is it not owing, not to the innocence
of your client, but to the exception 1
made by the law, that I am prevented from summoning you as a witness on my side on
this charge? [The evidence of Marcus Lucullus, of Chlorus, of Dio is read.]
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1 It was forbidden by the Roman Law, as by our own, for the advocates to give evidence against his clients of matters which had come to his knowledge by confidential communication.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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