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were worth while, if you have noticed it, O judges, to consider this man's carelessness
in bringing forward his accusations. I imagine, when he saw what men were sitting on
those benches, that he inquired whether this man or that man was going to defend him;
that he never even dreamt of me, because I have never pleaded any public cause before.
After he found that no one was going to defend him of those men who have the ability and
are in the habit of so doing, he began to be so careless that, when it suited his fancy
he sat down, then he walked about, sometimes he even called his boy, I suppose to give
him orders for supper, and utterly overlooked your assembly and all this court as if it
had been a complete desert.
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