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What then? Am I the boldest of all these men? By no means. Am I then so much more
attentive to my duties than the rest? I am not so covetous of even that praise, as to
wish to rob others of it. What is it then which has impelled me beyond all the rest to
undertake the cause of Sextus Roscius? Because, if any one of those men, men of the
greatest weight and dignity, whom you see present, had spoken, had said one word about
public affairs, as must be done in this case, he would be thought to have said much more
than he really had said.
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