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This is strange though; but what I am
about to say is a perfect miracle. That accusation of yours does not tend to
the point of procuring the condemnation of Quintus Ligarius, but of causing
us death. And this is an object which no Roman citizen has ever pursued
before you. That way of acting is quite foreign. It is the hatred of fickle
Greeks or of savage barbarians that is usually excited to the pitch of
thirsting for blood. For what else is your object? To prevent him from being
at ionic? To deprive him of his country? To hinder him from living with his
excellent brothers, with this Titus Brocchus, whom you see in court, his
uncle, or with Brocchus's son, his cousin? To prevent his appearing in his
country? Was that it? Can he be more deprived of all these things than he is
already? He is prevented from approaching Italy; he is banished. You,
therefore, do not wish to deprive him of his country, of which he already is
deprived, but of his life.
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