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He has been long enough, O judges, in misery. He has been years enough
struggling with odium. No one has been so hostile to him, except his parent, that we may not
think his ill-will satisfied by this time. You who are just to all men, who, the more cruelly
any one is attacked, do the more kindly protect him, preserve Aulus Cluentius, restore him
uninjured to his municipality. Restore him to his friends, and neighbours, and connections,
whose eagerness in his behalf you see. Bind all those men for ever to you and to your
children. This business, O judges, is yours; it is worthy of your dignity, it is worthy of
your clemency. This is rightly expected of you, to release a most virtuous and innocent man,
one dear and beloved by many men, at last from these his misfortunes; so that all men may see
that odium and faction may be excited in popular assemblies, but that in courts of justice
there is room only for truth.
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