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But if I cannot make the case plain, as
far as the money is concerned, by evidence, can you deny this, or will you now deny,
that after you had dismissed the rest of the judges, after those excellent men who
had sat on the bench with Caius Sacerdos, and who were used to sit there with you,
had been got rid of, you by yourself decided a matter which had been decided
before?—that the man, whom Caius Sacerdos, assisted by a bench of
colleagues, after an investigation of the case, acquitted, you, without any bench of
colleagues, without investigating the case, condemned? When you have confessed this,
which was done openly in the forum at Syracuse, before the eyes of the whole province; then deny, if you
like, that you received money. You will be very likely to find a man, when he sees
these things which were done openly, to ask what you did secretly; or to doubt
whether he had better believe my witnesses or your defenders.
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