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I will not, I say, when the cause has been
summed up by me, permit them after a delay of forty days has intervened, then at
last to reply to me when my accusation has already fallen into oblivion through
lapse of time; I will not permit the decision to be given when this crowd collected
from all Italy has departed from Rome, which has assembled from all quarters at the
same time on account of the comitia, of the games, and of the census. The reward of
the credit gained by your decision, or the danger arising from the unpopularity
which will accrue to you if you decide unjustly, I think ought to belong to you; the
labour and anxiety to me; the knowledge of what is done and the recollection of what
has been said by every one, to all.
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