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If your
father, at the request of any friend, whether influenced by kindness or wishing to
curry favour with him, had made that petition to you, still the inclination of your
father ought to have had the greatest weight with you; but when he begged it of you
for the sake of your own safety from a capital charge, and when he had sent
trustworthy men from home, and when they had come to you at a time when the whole
affair was still intact, could not even then a regard, if not for affection, at
least for your own safety, bring you back to duty and to common sense? He summons
the defendant. He does not answer. He summons the accuser. (Mark, I pray you, O
judges; see how greatly fortune herself opposed that man's insanity, and see at the
same time what chance aided the cause of Sthenius;) the accuser, Marcus Pacilius,
being summoned, (I know not how it came about,) did not answer, did not appear.
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