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Will you then, O judges, now turn back Publius Sulla into this band of rascals, out of that
band of honourable men who are living and have lived as his associates? Will you transfer him
from this body of citizens, and from the familiar dignity in which he lives with them, to the
party of impious men, to that crew and company of parricides? What then will become of that
most impregnable defence of modesty? in what respect will the purity of our past lives be of
any use to us? For what time is the reward of the character which a man has gained to be
reserved, if it is to desert him at his utmost need, and when he is engaged in a contest in
which all his fortunes are at stake—if it is not to stand by him and help him at
such a crisis as this?
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