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What hope he now has, and what he is
endeavouring to do, I will now briefly explain to you, O judges. But first of all,
remark, I beg you, how the matter has been arranged by him from the beginning. When
he first returned from the province, he endeavoured to get rid of this prosecution
by corrupting the judges at a great expense; and this object he continued to keep in
view till the conclusion of the appointment of the judges. After the judges were
appointed—because in drawing lots for them the fortune of the Roman people
had defeated his hopes, and because in rejecting some, my diligence had defeated his
impudence—the whole attempt at bribery was abandoned.
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