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But since, O judges, many things have deceived us, both in
our own affairs and in those of the republic, those things which must be borne, we bear. This
only we ask of you,—that you will consider that the whole strength of the
republic,—the whole constitution of the state,—all the memory of past, and
the safety of present and the hope of future time, hangs and depends upon your power, upon
your votes, upon this single trial. If ever the republic has had need to implore
the wisdom, the gravity, the prudence and the foresight of her judges, she implores it
now,—she implores it, I say, at this present time.
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