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complied with his wishes, and yet I did it (for it is not a thing which we ought to do at all
times) because I saw that the cause itself could be amply defended on its own merits, without
any reference to law at all. I saw that in this defence, which I now have employed, there was
more dignity, but that in that one which he begged me not to use, there would be less trouble.
But if I had no other object in view beyond merely gaining this cause, I should have read the
laws to you, and then have summed up.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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