[32]
Nay more; if it is usual
to produce a man who has said nothing, is it usual to produce one who has
spoken in his praise? Is it not customary rather to look on such a cause as
already decided, and to think that it is sufficient to read the previous
evidence of the witnesses, without producing the men themselves?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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