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The case in this trial, O judges, is exactly like this, and, indeed, identical with it. For
I ask of you, O Quinctius, if the point in question were, “What appeared to be the
pecuniary amount of the damage done by the household of Publius Fabius, by armed men, to
Marcus Tullius,” what would you have to say? Nothing, I suppose; for you confess
everything, both that the household of Publius Fabius did this, and that they did it violently
with armed men. As to the addition, “with malice,” do you think that that
avails you, that by which all your defence is cut off and excluded?
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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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