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One thing, O Lucius Quinctius, I should wish to obtain from you, which, although I desire
because it is useful for me, still I request of you because it is reasonable and
just,—that you would regulate the time that you take to yourself for speaking, so as
to leave the judges some time for coming to a decision. For the time before, there was no end
to your speech in his defence; night alone set bounds to your oration. Now, if you please, do
not do the same; this I beg of you. Nor do I beg it on this account, because I think it
desirable for me that you should pass over some topics, or that you should fail to state them
with sufficient elegance, and at sufficient length; but because I do think it enough for you
to state each fact only once. And if you do that, I have no fear that the whole day will be
taken up in talking.
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