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Are you then hesitating, O judges, when all these nations have an innate hatred to and wage
incessant war with the name of the Roman people? Do you think that, with their military cloaks
and their breeches, they come to us in a lowly and submissive spirit, as these do, who having
suffered injuries fly to us as suppliants and inferiors to beg the aid of the judges? Nothing
is further from the truth. On the contrary, they are strolling in high spirits and with their
heads up, all over the forum, uttering threatening expressions, and terrifying men with
barbarous and ferocious language; which, in truth, I should not believe, O judges, if I had
not repeatedly heard such things from the mouths of the accusers themselves in your
presence,—when they warned you to take care, lest, by acquitting this man, you
should excite some new Gallic war.
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