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Of such important and such atrocious actions, I am aware that I can neither speak with
sufficient propriety, nor complain with sufficient dignity, nor cry out against with
sufficient freedom. For my want of capacity is a hindrance to my speaking with
propriety; my age, to my speaking with dignity; the times themselves are an obstacle to
my speaking with freedom. To this is added great fear, which both nature and my modesty
cause me, and your dignity, and the violence of our adversaries, and the danger of
Sextus Roscius. On which account, I beg and entreat of you, O judges, to hear what I
have to say with attention, and with your favourable construction.
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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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