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From the self same day when we came
before you as judges, we began to disregard all the threats of those men which before we
were alarmed at. If cause was to contend with cause we are sure that we could easily
prove ours to any one but as the course of life of the one was to be contested with the
course of life of the other, we thought we had on that account even more need of you as
our judge. For this is the very point now in question, whether the rustic and unpolished
economy of my client can defend itself against the luxury and licentiousness of the
other or whether, homely as it is, and stripped of all ornaments, it is to lie handed
over naked to covetousness and wantonness.
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