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If, as I have said, your country were thus to address you, ought she not to obtain her
request, even if she were not able to enforce it? What shall I say of your having given
yourself into custody? what of your having said, for the sake of avoiding suspicion, that you
were willing to dwell in the house of Marcus Lepidus? And when you were not received by him,
you dared even to come to me, and begged me to keep you in my house; and when you had
received answer from me that I could not possibly be safe in the same house with you, when I
considered myself in great danger as long as we were in the same city, you came to Quintus
Metellus, the praetor, and being rejected by him, you passed on to your associate, that most
excellent man, Marcus Marcellus, who would be, I suppose you thought, most diligent in
guarding you, most sagacious hi suspecting you, and most bold in punishing you; but how far
can we think that man ought to be from bonds and imprisonment who has already judged himself
deserving of being given into custody?
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