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Wherefore I confess, and even, O Titus
Labienus, I avow and openly allege that you have been driven from that cruel, unreasonable, (I
will not say tribunitian, but) tyrannical persecution, by my counsel, by my virtue, and by my
influence. And although in that prosecution you neglected all the precedents of our ancestors,
all the laws, all the authority of the senate, all religious feeling, and even the public
observance due to the auspices, still you shall hear nothing of all this from me, now that I
have so little time to speak in. We shall have abundant opportunity hereafter for a discussion
on those points.
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