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On this the judges began to laugh; the counsel began to get in a rage, and
to be very indignant that his cause was taken out of his mouth, and that he could not go on
saying “Look, O judges,” from that place; nor was anything nearer
happening, than his pursuing him and seizing him by the throat, and bringing him back to his
seat, in order that he might be able to finish his summing up. And so Fabricius was condemned,
in the first place by his own judgment, which is the severest condemnation of all, and in the
second place by the authority of the law, and by the sentences of the judges.
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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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