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I saw this, O judges, that unless, while
the recollection of the senate on the subject was still fresh, I bore evidence to the
authority and to the particulars of this information by public records, hereafter some one,
not Torquatus, nor any one like Torquatus, (for in that indeed I have been much deceived,) but
some one who had lost his patrimony, some enemy of tranquillity, some foe to all good men,
would say that the information given had been different; in order the more easily, when some
gale of odium had been stirred up against all virtuous men, to be able, amid the misfortunes
of the republic, to discover some harbour for his own broken vessel. Therefore, having
introduced the informers into the Senate, I appointed senators to take down every statement
made by the informers, every question that was asked, and every answer that was given.
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