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When on
the trial your dignity procured me the fruit of my diligence, I gained thus
much,—that in the same hour that I began to speak, I cut off from that
audacious, wealthy, extravagant, and abandoned criminal, all hope of corrupting the
judges; that on the very first day, when such a number of witnesses had been brought
forward, the Roman people determined that If he were acquitted, the republic would
no longer exist; that the second day took away from his friends, not only all hope
of victory, but even all inclination to make any defence; that the third day
prostrated the man so entirely, that, pretending to be sick, he took counsel, not
what reply he could make, but how he could avoid making any; and after that, on the
subsequent days, he was so oppressed and overwhelmed by these accusations, by these
witnesses, both from the city and from the provinces, that when these days of the
games intervened, no one thought that he had procured an adjournment, but they
thought that he was condemned.
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