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But if you now clearly see this, which has been long ago
proved by the whole of my speech, that the defendant must inevitably be condemned by that
decision, especially when brought before the same judges who had made two previous
investigations into the matter, you must at the same time see this, that the accuser could
have had no imaginable reason for wishing to bribe the bench of judges.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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