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We have got a most zealous prosecutor, O judges, and an enemy in every respect violent and
furious against us. I trust that he may be of great use to his friends and to the republic;
but at all events, he has undertaken this case and this prosecution, as if he were impelled by
some most extraordinary eagerness. What a company attended him while pursuing his
investigations! company, do I say? rather, what an army! what profusion! what expense! what
prodigality was there! And though these statements are of service to my case, still I do not
make them without apprehension lest Laelius should think that I am seeking by my oration to
make him talked about, or to excite odium against him, in a business which he has undertaken
for the sole object of acquiring credit.
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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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