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Still as it was plain to the judges that they
were found sleeping with the door open, the young men were acquitted and released from
all suspicion. For no one thought that there was any one who, when he had violated all
divine and human laws by a nefarious crime, could immediately go to sleep; because they
who have committed such a crime not only cannot rest free from care, but cannot even
breathe without fear.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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