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If, O judges, everything
was wanting to Marcus Fonteius in this cause; if he appeared before the court, having passed a
disgraceful youth and an infamous life, having been convicted by the evidence of virtuous men
of having discharged his duties as a magistrate (in which his conduct has been under your own
eye) and as a lieutenant, in a most scandalous manner, and being hated by all his
acquaintances; if in his trial he were overwhelmed with the oral and documentary evidence of
the Narbonnese colonists of the Roman people, of our most faithful allies the Massilians, and
of all the citizens of Rome; still it would be your
duty to take the greatest care, lest you should appear to be afraid of those men, and to be
influenced by their threats and menaced terrors, who were so prostrate and subdued in the
times of your fathers and forefathers, as to be contemptible.
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