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What do we want more?
Because the defendant is a man to whom money has always seemed of no value, but
character of the very highest, and the judge is a man whom we are no less anxious to
have think well of us than to decide favourably for us, and the bar present is such,
that on account of its extraordinary brilliancy we ought to feel almost as much respect
for it as for another judge, we will speak as if every regular trial, every honorary
arbitration, every domestic duty were included and comprehended in the present formula.
That former oration was necessary, this shall be a voluntary one; the other was
addressed to the judge, this is addressed to Caius Piso; that was on behalf of a
defendant, this is on behalf of Roscius; the one was prepared to gain a victory, this
one to preserve a good character.
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