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For we have
brought before your tribunal not only a thief, but a wholesale robber; not only an
adulterer, but a ravisher of chastity; not only a sacrilegious man, but an open
enemy to all sacred things and all religion; not only an assassin, but a most
barbarous murderer of both citizens and allies; so that I think him the only
criminal in the memory of man so atrocious, that it is even for his own good to be
condemned.
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