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'postulabam,' inquit, 'ut satis daret.'
iniuria postulabas.
'ita iubebare'; recusabat Alfenus. 'ita, verum praetor
decernebat.'—tribuni igitur appellabantur.—'hic te,' inquit,
'teneo; non est istud iudicio pati neque iudicio defendere,
cum auxilium a tribunis petas.' hoc ego, cum attendo qua
prudentia sit Hortensius, dicturum esse eum non arbitror.
Cum autem antea dixisse audio et causam ipsam considero,
quid aliud dicere possit non reperio. fatetur enim libellos
Alfenum deiecisse, vadimonium promisisse, iudicium quin
acciperet in ea ipsa verba quae Naevius edebat non recusasse,
ita tamen, more et instituto, per eum magistratum qui
auxili causa constitutus est.
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