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If it be proved that
this did take place as I say it did, will you be able to say, O Hortensius, that
there was nothing in those letters to hurt Verres? You not only will not say so, but
you will not even be able to say this,—that there was not as much in them
as I say there was. This then is what you have brought about by your wisdom and by
your interest; that, as I said a little while ago, you have given me the greatest
licence for accusing, and he judges the most ample liberty to believe anything.
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