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Let us see
what that fellow said on his oath. Recite it. “Being asked by the accuser,
he answered that he was not prosecuting for that in this trial, that he intended to
prosecute for that another time.” How, then, does Nero's decision profit
you?—how does the conviction of Philodamus? Though you, a lieutenant, had
been besieged, and when, as you yourself write to Nero, a notorious injury had been
done to the Roman people, and to the common cause of all lieutenants, you did not
prosecute. You said that you intended to prosecute at some other time When was that
time? When have you prosecuted? Why have you taken so much from the rights of a
lieutenant's rank? Why have you abandoned and betrayed the cause of the Roman
people? Why have you passed over your own injuries, involved as they were in the
public injury? Ought you not to have brought the cause before the senate? to have
complained of such atrocious injuries? to have taken care that those men who had
excited the populace should be summoned by the letters of the consuls?
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