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What was the case of Autronius? did not his companions, did not his own
colleagues, did not his former friends, of whom he had at one time an ample number, did not
all these men, who are the chief men in the republic, abandon him? Yes, and many of them even
damaged him with their evidence. They made up their minds that it was an offence of such
enormity, that they not only were bound to abstain from doing anything to conceal it, but that
it was their duty to reveal it, and throw all the light that they were able upon it.
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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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