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When I returned to Rome from Sicily, when he and his friends, luxurious and polite men, had
disseminated reports of this sort, in order to blunt the inclinations of the
witnesses,—such as that I had been seduced by a great bribe from
proceeding with a genuine prosecution; although it did not seem probable to any one,
because the witnesses from Sicily were men
who had known me as a quaestor in the province; and as the witnesses from Rome were men of the highest character, who knew
every one of us thoroughly, just as they themselves are known; still I had some
apprehension lest any one should have a doubt of my good faith and integrity, till
we came to striking out the objectionable judges.
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