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Oh, unexampled impudence! Does he demand to be acquitted at
Rome, who has decided in his own
province that it is impossible that he should be acquitted? who thinks that money
will have a greater influence over senators most carefully chosen, than fear will
over three judges? But Scandilius says that he will not say a word before a judge
like Artemidorus, and still he presses the matter on, and loads you with favourable
conditions, if you choose to avail yourself of them. If you decide that, in the
whole province of Sicily, no capable judge
or recuperator can be found, he requires of you to refer the matter to Rome; and on this you exclaim that the man is a
dishonest man, for demanding a trial in which your character is at stake to take
place in a place where he knows that you are unpopular.
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