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Does it appear to you a shameful thing that he is defended with earnestness? Believe
me, if, in return for the hospitality and kindness of his father, all his hereditary
friends were to choose to be present and dared to speak with freedom, he would be
defended numerously enough; and if because of the greatness of the injury, and because
the interests of the whole republic are imperilled by his danger, they all were to
punish this conduct, you would not in truth be able to sit in that place. Now he is
defended so that his adversaries ought not to be indignant at it, and ought not to think
that they are surpassed in power.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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