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And of that class of witnesses, men who were accomplices
in his robberies, I might have had a great plenty if I had chosen to employ them;
who offered of their own accord to go wherever I chose, in order to deliver
themselves from the danger of actions, and from a connection with his crimes. I
rejected the voluntary offers of all of them. There was not only no room for a
traitor, there was none even for a deserter in my camp. Perhaps they are to be
considered better accusers than I, who do all these things; but I wish the defender
of others to be praised in my person, not the accuser. He does not dare bring in his
accounts to the treasury before Dolabella is condemned. He prevails on the senate to
grant him an adjournment; because he said that his account-books had been sealed up
by the accusers of Dolabella; just as if he had not the power of copying them. This
man is the only man who never renders accounts to the treasury.
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