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But
we see that in the nature of things he must have adopted one of these three lines of conduct:
he must either have been with Saturninus, or with the good men, or he must have been lying in
bed—to lie hid was a state equal to the most infamous death; to be with Saturninus
was the act of insanity and wickedness. Virtue, and honour, and shame, compelled him to range
himself on the side of the consuls. Do you, therefore, accuse Caius Rabirius on this account,
that he was with those men whom he would have been utterly mad to have opposed, utterly
infamous if he had deserted them?
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