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What have you given me to defend my client against, my good accuser? And what ground
have you given these judges for any suspicion? He was afraid of being disinherited. I
hear you. But no one says what ground he had for fear. His father had it in
contemplation. Prove it. There is no proof; there is no mention of any one with whom he
deliberated about it—whom he told of it; there is no circumstance from which
it could occur to your minds to suspect it. When you bring accusations in this manner, O
Erucius, do you not plainly say this? “I know what I have received, but I do
not know what to say. I have had regard to that alone which Chrysogonus said, that no
one would be his advocate; that there was no one who would dare at this time to say a
word about the purchase of the property, and about that conspiracy.” This
false opinion prompted you to this dishonesty. You would not in truth have said a word
if you had thought that any one would answer you.
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