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But I will tell you, O
judges, what I am sure of. Know, then, that there are some men who are possessed
with such a hatred or your order, that they now make a practice of openly saying
that they are willing for that man, whom they know to be a most infamous one, to be
acquitted for this one reason,—that then the honour or the judgment-seat
may be taken from the senate with ignominy and disgrace. It is not my fear for your
good faith, O judges, which has urged me to lay these considerations before you at
some length, but the new hopes which those men are entertaining; for when those
hopes had brought Verres suddenly back from the gates of the city to this court,
some men suspected that his intention had not been changed so suddenly without a
cause.
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