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I fear that I may be wearisome to you, O judges, or
that I may seem to distrust your capacity, if I dwell longer on matters which are so
evident. The whole accusation of Erucius, as I think, is at an end; unless perhaps you
expect me to refute the charges which he has brought against us of peculation and of
other imaginary crimes of that sort; charges unheard of by us before this time, and
quite novel; which he appeared to me to be spouting out of some other speech which he
was composing against some other criminal; so wholly were they unconnected with either
the crime of parricide, or the man who is now on his trial. But as he accuses us of
these things with his bare word, it is sufficient to deny them with our bare word. If
there is any point which he is keeping back to prove by witnesses, there also, as in
this cause, he shall find us more ready than he expected.
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