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Come now, in the matter of violence I will make you yourself the judge, O Aebutius. Answer,
if you please. Was Caecina unwilling to come on his farm, or was he unable? As you say that
you opposed and repelled him, surely you will admit that he wished to do so. Can you then say
that it was not violence which hindered him, when, by reason of armed men, he was unable to
come to a place, when he wished to come there, and had gone out with that intention? For, if
he was by no means able to do what he was exceedingly desirous to do, beyond all question some
violence or other hindered him, or else tell me why, when he wished to come on the land, he
did not come.
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