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Come, let us consider now the other circumstances
which might make it easy for him. There was at that time a multitude of assassins, as
Erucius has stated, and men were being killed with impunity. What!—what was
that multitude? A multitude, I imagine, either of those who were occupied in getting
possession of men's property, or of those who were hired by them to murder some one. If
you think it was composed of those who coveted other men's property, you are one of that
number,—you who are enriched by our wealth; if of those whom they who call
them by the lightest name call slayers, inquire to whom they are bound, and whose
dependents they are, believe me you will find it is some one of your own confederacy,
whatever you say to the contrary, compare it with our defence, and by this means the
cause of Sextus Roscius will be most easily contrasted with yours.
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