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The charge remains, that no one defended him at the
trial. In opposition to which I argued that he was most abundantly defended, and that
not by a man unconnected with him, nor by any slanderous or worthless person, but by a
Roman knight, his own relation and intimate friend, whom Sextus Naevius himself had been
accustomed previously to leave as his own agent. And that even if he did appeal to the
tribunes, he was not on that account the less prepared to submit to a trial; and that
Naevius had not had his rights wrested from him by the powerful interest of the agent;
that on the other hand he was so much superior to us in interest that he now scarcely
gives us the liberty of breathing.
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