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I seem to myself to have been too long occupied
with one class of crime. I am aware, O judges, that I have to encounter the
weariness of your ears and eyes at such a repetition of similar cases; I will,
therefore, pass over many instances. But I entreat you, O judges, in the name of the
immortal gods, in the name of these very gods of whose honour and worship we have
been so long speaking, refresh your minds so as to attend to what I am about to
mention, while I bring forward and detail to you that crime of his by which the
whole province was roused, and in speaking of which you will pardon me if I appear
to go back rather far, and trace the earliest recollections of the religious
observances in question. The importance of the affair will not allow me to pass over
the atrocity of his guilt with brevity.
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