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All these measures were strengthening your hands as a prosecutor, but weakening your chance
as a candidate. And by them all a violent blow was struck at your hopes of success, as I
warned you; and many very severe things were said about it by that most able and most eloquent
man, Hortensius, owing to which my task of speaking now is the more difficult; as, after both
he had spoken before me, and also Marcus Crassus, a man of the greatest dignity, and industry,
and skill as an orator, I, coming in at the end, was not to plead some part of the cause, but
to say with respect to the whole matter whatever I thought advisable. Therefore I am forced to
recur to the same ideas, and to a great extent, O judges, I have to contend with a feeling of
satiety on your part.
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