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For Titus Attius, a virtuous and eloquent young man, conducts this case in such a manner;
saying that all the citizens are bound by all the laws; and you attend and listen in silence,
as you ought to do.
Aulus Cluentius, a Roman knight, is prosecuted according to that law by which the senators,
and those who have served magistracies, alone are bound. I, by his desire, am prevented from
demurring to this and from establishing the main bulwark of my defence on the citadel of the
law. If Cluentius gains his cause, as we, relying on your equity, feel sure that he will, all
will believe, what indeed will be the truth, that he has gained it because of his innocence,
since he has been defended in such a manner as this; but in the law, all appeal to which he
discarded, he found no protection at all.
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