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But as
for you, O Caecilius, what can you do? On what occasion, or in what affair, have you, I
will not say given proof to others of your powers! but even made trial of yourself to
yourself? Has it never occurred to you how important a business it is to uphold a public
cause? to lay bare the whole life of another? and to bring it palpably before, not only
the minds of the judges, but before the very eyes and sight of all men; to defend the
safety of the allies, the interests of the provinces, the authority of the laws, and the
dignity of the judgment-seat?
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