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In truth I would willingly now abandon this charge about the statues, to have you
admit to me, what would be most honourable to you, that the agriculturists
contributed this money for a statue to do you honour, of their own free will. Grant
me this. In a moment you cut from under your feet the principal part of your
defence. For then you will not be able to say that the agriculturists were angry
with and enemies to you. O singular cause; O miserable and ruinous defence; for the
defendant, and he too a defendant who has been praetor in Sicily, to be unwilling to receive an admission from
his accuser that the agriculturists erected him a statue of their own free will,
that they have a good opinion of him, that they are his friends, that they desire
his safety! He is afraid of your believing this, for he is overwhelmed with the
evidence given against him by the agriculturists.
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