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Wherefore, O judges, that we may at last come to the subject of action and
the accusation, if it is neither the case that all avowal of the deed is
unprecedented, nor that anything has been determined about our cause by the
senate differently to what we could wish; and if the proposer of the law
himself, when there was no dispute as to the deed, yet thought that there
should be a discussion as to the law; and if the judges had been chosen, and
a man appointed to preside over the investigation, to decide these matters
justly and wisely; it follows, O judges, that you have now nothing else to
inquire into but which plotted against the other; and that you may the more
easily discern this, attend carefully, I entreat you, while I briefly
explain to you the matter as it occurred.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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