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What am I to do, O judges? In what way am I to shape my
accusation? which way am I to turn? For to all my attacks the appellation of a
gallant general is opposed, as a wall of defence. I am acquainted with the
topic;—I see how Hortensius is going to boast himself. He will dilate upon
the dangers of the war, the critical time of the republic, the scarcity of able
generals; and that he will entreat of you, he will even claim as a right belonging
to himself, that you do not suffer so great a general to be taken from the Roman
people through the evidence of the Sicilians; that you do not allow his glory as a
general to be overclouded by accusations of avarice.
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