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Indeed what is so common as breath to the living, earth to the dead, the sea to those
who float, the shore to those who are cast up by the sea? These men so live, while they
are able to live at all, that they are unable to draw breath from heaven; they so die
that earth does not touch their bones; they are tossed about by the waves so that they
are never washed; lastly, they are cast up by the sea so, that when dead they do not
even rest on the rocks. Do you think, O Erucius, that you can prove to such men as these
your charge of so enormous a crime, a crime to which so remarkable a punishment is
affixed, if you do not allege any motive for the crime? If you were accusing him before
the very purchasers of his property, and if Chrysogonus were presiding at that trial,
still you would have come more carefully and with more preparation.
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