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Are
you reserved for this? Are you chosen for this? to condemn those whom cut-throats and
assassins have not been able to murder? Good generals are accustomed to do this when
they engage in battle—to place soldiers in that spot where they think the
enemy will retreat, and then if any escape from the battle they make an onset on them
unexpectedly. I suppose in the same way those purchasers of property think that you,
that such men as you, are sitting here to catch those who have escaped out of their
hands. God forbid, O judges, that this which our ancestors thought fit to style the
public council should now be considered a guard to brokers!
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