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More, therefore, is granted to Claudius when
the interdict runs thus, “from which he was driven by violence, by my
malice,” than if it had merely said, “whence he was driven by me by
violence.” For, in this latter case, unless I had myself driven him out, I should
gain my cause. In the former case, when the word “malice” is added,
whether I had merely originated the design, or had myself driven him out, it is inevitable
that it should be decided that he had been violently driven out by me with malice.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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