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					<p>Let us now consider this which is the main point or all; for which of the two
                        the identical spot where they did meet was the best suited for planting an
                        ambush. But is that, O judges, a matter about which one can possibly doubt
                        or think seriously for a moment? In front of Clodius's farm,—that
                        farm in which on account of those absurd erections and excavations for
                        foundations of his, there were pretty well a thousand vigorous men
                        employed,—on that high and raised ground belonging to his
                        adversary, did Milo think that he should get the better in the contest, and
                        had he with that view selected that spot above all ethers? Or was he rather
                        waited for in that place by a man who had conceived the idea of attacking,
                        because of the hopes that that particular spot suggested to him? The facts,
                        O judges, speak for themselves; facts, which are always of the greatest
                        weight in a cause. </p></body></text></group></text></TEI.2>