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However that witness, (in
order that you might easily understand that he was not present in mind while their case was
being stated by that party, and while their witnesses were giving their evidence, but that he
was thinking of some criminal,) though every witness before him had stated that there were
many armed men with Aebutius, said, (though he stood alone in his statement,) that there were
no armed men at all. At first, I thought that the cunning fellow was well aware of what the
cause was in need of, and only made a mistake because he was contradicting all the witnesses
who had spoken before him; when all of a sudden, according to his usual custom, he forgets his
previous statement, and says that his slaves were the only armed men there.
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