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What is it, then? Whither has the accuser betaken himself in
his dearth of arguments? The time, says he, was such that men were constantly being
killed with impunity; so that you, from the great number of assassins, could effect this
without any trouble. Meantime you seem to me, O Erucius, to be wishing to obtain two
articles for one payment; to blacken our characters in this trial, and to accuse those
very men from whom you have received payment. What do you say? Men were constantly being
killed? By whose agency? and by whom? Do you not perceive that you have been brought
here by brokers? What next? Are we ignorant that in these times the same men were
brokers of men's lives as well as of their possessions?
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