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And, that you may more clearly understand of how small value words are,—if you by
yourself, or if any one person had made an onset on me with shield and sword, and I had been
driven away by these means, would you venture to say that the interdict spoke of armed men,
but that in this case there had only been one armed man? I do not believe you would be so
impudent. And yet see if you are not far more impudent now. For then, indeed, you might
implore the assistance of all men, because men, in deciding on your case, were forgetting the
native language; because unarmed men were being decided to be armed; because though an
interdict had been framed expressly about many men, the deed had been done by one man
only—one man was being decided to be many men.
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