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We who are pleading this cause adopt the exclamations which in other
trials the accusers are in the habit of using. We entreat of you, O Marcus Fannius, and
of you, O judges, to punish crimes with the greatest energy; to resist audacious men
with the greatest boldness; to consider that unless you show in this cause what your
disposition is, the covetousness and wickedness, and audacity of men will increase to
such a pitch that murders will take place not only secretly, but even here in the forum,
before your tribunal, O Marcus Fannius; before your feet, O judges, among the very
benches of the court.
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