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Oh, but they visited Habitus himself with their censure. Not for any baseness, nor for any,
I will not say vice, but not even for any fault of his own in his whole life. For no one can
possibly be a more religious man, or a more honourable one, or more scrupulous in fulfilling
all his duties. Nor indeed does the opposite party say anything to the contrary, but they
adopt the same report of the judges having been bribed. Nor indeed have they any contrary
opinion to that which we wish to be entertained about his modesty, integrity, and virtue; but
they thought it quite impossible for the accuser to be passed over after the judges had been
punished. And with respect to this whole business, if I produce one precedent from the whole
of our ancient history, I will say no more.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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