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You will say, “what follows if I was constantly at
Rome?” I shall answer,
“But I was never there at all.” “I confess that I am a
broker, but so are many other men also.” “But I, as you yourself
accuse me of being, am a countryman and a rustic.” “It does not
follow at once, because I have been present with a troop of assassins, that I am an
assassin myself.” “But at all events I, who never had even the
acquaintance of assassins, am far removed from such a crime.” There are many
things which may be mentioned, by which it may be understood that you had the greatest
facilities for committing this crime, which I pass over, not only because I do not
desire to accuse, but still more on this account,—because if I were to wish to
enumerate all the murders which were then committed on the same account as that on which
Sextus Roscius was slain, I fear lest my speech would seem to refer to others also.
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