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But the case of Stalenus then was very
different from what your case is now, O Attius. He, being pressed by the facts, could not
possibly say anything which was not more creditable than confessing what had really happened.
But I do marvel that you should have now brought up again the very same plea which was then
hooted out of court and rejected;
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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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