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My views were, I think, shared at that trial by many of the
jury; for I am told that he was only condemned by a single vote, and yet he had
no recourse to tears or supplications and made no effort, small or great, to win
the favour of his judges. Let us assume, then, that the judges who condemned him
did so, not because he retaliated, but because he did it in such a way as to
kill the aggressor, while the judges who acquitted him allowed even this licence
of revenge to a man who had suffered an outrage on his person.
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