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I see therefore that there were many causes which urged that man to this crime. Let us
now see whether he had any opportunity of committing it. Where was Sextus Roscius
slain?—at Rome. What of you, O
Roscius? Where were you at that time?—at Rome. But what is that to the purpose? many other men were there too. As
if the point now were, who of so vast a crowd slew him, and as if this were not rather
the question, whether it is more probable that he who was slain at Rome was slain by that man who was constantly at
Rome at that time, or by him who for many
years had never come to Rome at all?
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