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If those men ought not to be believed who appear to say anything covetously
with a view to some private gain, I think that the Caepios and Metelli proposed to themselves
a greater gain from the condemnation of Quintus Pompeius, as by that they would have got rid
of a formidable adversary to all their views, than all the Gauls hoped for from the disaster
of Marcus Fonteius, in which that province believed that all its safety and liberty consisted.
If it is proper to have a regard to the men themselves, (a thing which in truth in the case
of witnesses ought to be of the greatest weight,) is any one, the most honourable man in all
Gaul to be compared, I will not say with the most
honourable men of our city, but even with the meanest of Roman citizens? Does Induciomarus
know what is the meaning of giving evidence? Is he affected with that awe which moves every
individual among us when he is brought into that box?
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