[39]
When you were requesting this of the praetor,—when you were appealing to the
tribunes, you said that you ought to have an opportunity given to you of persuading the
judges, if you could, that damage had not been done to Marcus Tullius wrongfully. Though,
therefore, you wish that to be added to the formula of the trial, in order to be allowed to
speak to that point before the judges; though it was not added, do you nevertheless speak to
it as if you had gained the very thing which was refused to you?
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