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But if you think you had not then the same justice as Alphenus,
because it was in his power to appeal to some one against you; because a magistrate was
found before whom the cause of Alphenus could be fairly heard; what is Quinctius to
determine on at this time I—a man who has not as yet found any just
magistrate, nor been able to procure the customary trial; 1 in whose case no condition, no
security, no petition has been interposed,—I do not say a just one, but none
at all that had ever been heard of before that time. I wish to try an action about
money. You cannot. But that is the point in dispute. It does not concern me; you must
plead to a capital charges. Accuse me then, if it must be so. No says be, not unless
you, in an unprecedented manner, first make your defence. You must plead; the time must
be fixed at our pleasure; the judge himself shall be removed.
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