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You
have in your power to remove and to eradicate the disgrace and infamy which has now
for many years attached to your order. It is evident to all men, that since these
tribunals have been established which we now have, there has never been a bench of
judges of the same splendour and dignity as this. 1 If anything is done wrongly in this case, all men
will think not that other more capable judges should be appointed of the same order
of men, which is not possible; but that another order must be sought for, from which
to select the judges for the future.
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1 Cicero several times in these orations takes credit to himself for his industry and intrepidity in striking all judges liable to suspicion off the list of those who were to try this case.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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