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And since you were deceived in all this, O Erucius, and since
you see that everything is altered; that the cause on behalf of Sextus Roscius is
argued, if not as it should be, at all events with freedom, since you see that be is
defended whom you thought was abandoned, that those who you expected would deliver him
up to you are judging impartially, give us again, at last, some of your old skill and
prudence; confess that you came hither with the hope that there would he a robbery here,
not a trial. A trial is held on a charge of parricide, and no reason is alleged by the
accuser why the son has slain his father.
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