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What will you do when he begins to pity his client, to complain, and
to take off some of his unpopularity from him and transfer it to you? to speak of the
close connection necessarily subsisting between the quaestor and the praetor? of the
custom of the ancients? of the holy nature of the connection between those to whom the
same province was by lot appointed? Will you be able to encounter the odium such a
speech will excite against you? Think a moment; consider again and again. For there
seems to me to be danger of his overwhelming you not with words only, but of his
blunting the edge of your genius by the mere gestures and motions of his body, and so
distracting you and leading you away from every previous thought and purpose.
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