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And, moreover, we have this additional disadvantage,
that Marcus Junius, who has several times pleaded this cause before you, O Aquillius, a
man practised in the conduct of other causes also, and much and frequently concerned in
this particular one, is at this moment absent, being engaged on his new commission;
1 and so they have had recourse to me, who, even if I had all other
requisite qualifications in ever so high a degree, have certainly scarcely had time
enough to be able to understand so important a business, having so many points of
dispute involved in it
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