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But that iniquity, which, if it should
be committed, I promise to prosecute severely, with however much trouble and danger
to myself, and whatever enmities I may bring on myself by so doing, you, O Marcus
Glabrio, can guard against ever taking place by your wisdom, and authority, and
diligence. Do you undertake the cause of the tribunals. Do you undertake the cause
of impartiality, of integrity, of good faith and of religion. Do you undertake the
cause of the senate; that, being proved worthy by its conduct in this trial, it may
come into favour and popularity with the Roman people. Think who you are, and in
what a situation you are placed; what you ought to give to the Roman people, what
you ought to repay to your ancestors. Let the recollection of the Acilian 1
law passed by your father occur to your mind, owing to which law the Roman people
has had this advantage of most admirable decisions and very strict judges in cases
of extortion.
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