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What shall I say? Was that then an investigation, or a discussion, or a
decision? I will suppose it was. Let him, who wishes today to speak on the subject of the
people having been excited, say whose wishes were at that time complied with; let him say on
what account Junius gave his decision. Whomsoever you
ask, you will get this answer;—Because he received money, because he unfairly
crushed an innocent man. This is the common opinion. But if that were the truth, he ought to
have been prosecuted under the same law as Habitus is impeached under. But he himself was
carrying on an investigation according to that law. Quinctius would have waited a few days.
But he was unwilling to accuse him as a private man, and when the odium of the business had
been allayed. You see then that all the hope of the accuser was not in the cause itself, but
in the time and in the influence of individuals.
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