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For if perchance any one
should say that Cato would not have come forward as an accuser if he had not previously made
up his mind about the justice of the cause, he will then be laying down a most unjust law, O
judges, and establishing a miserable condition for men in their danger, if he thinks that the
opinion of an accuser is to have against a defendant the weight of a previous investigation
legally conducted.
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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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