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Do not you perceive, O judges, that the sole object of all this is to
get rid of the children of proscribed persons by any means; and that the first step to
such a proceeding is sought for in your oaths and in the danger of Sextus Roscius? Is
there any doubt to whom the guilt belongs, when you see on one side a broker, an enemy,
an assassin, the same being also now our accuser, and on the other side a needy man, the
son of the murdered man, highly thought of by his friends, on whom not only no crime but
no suspicion even can be fixed? Do you see anything else whatever against Roscius except
that his father's property has been sold?
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