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The cause itself ought to obtain this
from you; and besides, it is due to your virtue and courage to show that you are not the men
to whom it is most advisable for an accuser to apply after having rejected other judges. And
in leaving the matter to your decision, O judges, I exhort you, with all the earnestness that
my affection for you warrants me in using, so to act that we, by our common zeal, (since we
are united in the service of the republic,) and you, by your humanity and mercy, may repel
from us both the false charge of cruelty.
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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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