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But still, O Torquatus, I ask you, as your enemy was mentioned in the information, and as a
full senate and the memory of all men as to so recent an affair was a witness of that fact; as
my clerks would have communicated the information to you, my intimate friend and companion, if
you had wished for it, even before they had taken a copy of it; when you saw that there were
any incorrectnesses in it, why were you silent, why did you permit them? Why did you not make
a complaint to me or to some friend of mine? or why did you not at least, since you are so
well inclined to inveigh against your friends, expostulate passionately and earnestly with me?
Do you, when your voice was never once heard at the time, when, though the information was
read, and copied out, and published, you kept silence then,—do you, I
say, now on a sudden dare to bring forward a statement of such importance? and to place
yourself in such a position that before you can convict me of having tampered with the
information, you must confess that you are convicted yourself of the grossest negligence, on
your own information bid against yourself?
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