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But somehow or other you have repeated over and over again, and have dwelt
upon the assertion, that you did not choose to connect this case with the
games, lest I, according to my usual custom, should say something about the
sacred cars, for the sake of exciting pity; as I had done before in the case
of other aediles. No doubt you got something by this; for you deprived me of
an embellishment of my speech. I shall be laughed at now if I make any
mention of the sacred cars, after you have predicted that I
should do so. And without the sacred cars what can I find to say? And here
you added, too, that this was the reason why I by my law had established the
penalty of banishment in cases of bribery, that I might be able to sum up my
orations in ways more calculated to excite pity. Does he not, when he says
all this, seem to you to be arguing against some teacher of declamation, and
not with one who is a pupil, as I may say, of the real toils of the forum?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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