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On these accounts I have stood forward as the advocate in this cause, not as being the
one selected who could plead with the greatest ability, but as the one left of the whole
body who could do so with the least danger; and not in order that Sextus Roscius might
he defended by a sufficiently able advocacy, but that he might not be wholly abandoned.
Perhaps you may ask, What is that dread, and what is that alarm which hinders so many,
and such eminent men, from being willing, as they usually are, to plead on behalf of the
life and fortunes of another? And it is not strange that you are as yet ignorant of
this, because all mention of the matter which has given rise to this trial has been
designedly omitted by the accusers.
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