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For it thinks that the decision
concerning the rights to freedom and to citizenship belong to itself; and it thinks
rightly. Let that fellow, forsooth, break down with his evidence the intentions of
the senators—let him force his way through the questions of all
men—let him make his escape from your severity; believe me, he will be
held by much tighter chains in the hands of the Roman people. The Roman people will
give credit to those Roman knights who, when they were produced as witnesses before
you originally, said that a Roman citizen, one who was offering honourable men as
his bail, was crucified by him in their sight.
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