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Here consider in how many toils he involved himself; from which he could never
disentangle himself. In the first place, he had often and openly declared himself in
Sicily from his tribunal, and had
asserted to many people in private conversation, that it was lawful to take a charge
against an absent man; that he, for example, had done so himself—which he
had. That he was in the habit of constantly saying this, was stated at the former
pleading by Sextus Pompeius Chlorus, a man of whose virtue I have before spoken
highly; and by Cnaeus Pompeius Theodorus, a man approved of by the judgment of that
most illustrious man Cnaeus Pompeius in many most important affairs, and, by
universal consent, a most accomplished person; and by Posides Matro of Solentum, a
man of the highest rank, of the greatest reputation and virtue. And as many as you
please will tell you the same thing at this present trial, both men who have heard
it from his own mouth,—some of the leading men of our order,—and
others too who were present when the accusation was taken against Sthenius in his
absence. Moreover at Rome, when the matter
was discussed in the senate, all his friends, and among them his own father,
defended him on the ground of its being lawful so to act;—of its having
been done constantly;—of his having done what he had done according to the
example and established precedent of others.
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