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tuli graviter et acerbe, iudices, in eum me locum adduci
ut aut eos homines spes falleret qui opem a me atque
auxilium petissent, aut ego, qui me ad defendendos homines
ab ineunte adulescentia dedissem, tempore atque officio
coactus ad accusandum traducerer. dicebam habere eos1
actorem Q. Caecilium, qui praesertim quaestor in eadem2
provincia post me quaestorem3 fuisset. quo4 ego adiumento
sperabam hanc a me posse molestiam demoveri5, id6 mihi
erat adversarium maxime; nam illi multo mihi hoc facilius
remisissent si istum non nossent, aut si iste apud eos
quaestor non fuisset.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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