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I was vexed and distressed, O judges, at being brought into such a strait, as to be
forced either to let those men's hopes deceive them who had entreated succour and
assistance of me, or else, when I had from my very earliest youth devoted myself
entirely to defending men, to be now, under the compulsion of the occasion and of my
duty, transferred to the part of an accuser. I told them that they had an advocate in
Quintus Caecilius, who had been quaestor in the same province after I was quaestor
there. But the very thing which I thought would have been an assistance to me in getting
rid of this difficulty, was above all things a hindrance to me; for they would have much
more easily excused me if they had not known him, or if he had never been among them as
quaestor.
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