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Be it so. He had some particular misdeeds
of his own to bear up against. And yet even he (I say this on my own responsibility) would
never have been condemned if you had been his judges, he, a man by whose condemnation the tomb
of Catiline was decked with flowers and the sepulchres of all those most audacious men and
domestic enemies were honoured with assemblies and banquets, and by which the shade of
Catiline was appeased. Now an expiation for the death of Lentulus is sought to be obtained at
Flaccus's expense, and by your instrumentality. What victim can you offer more acceptable to
the manes of Publius Lentulus,—who intended, after you had been all murdered amid
the embraces of your children and your wives, to bury you beneath the burning ruins of your
country,—than you will offer, if you satiate his impious hatred towards all of us in
the blood of Lucius Flaccus?
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