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But let us read what follows. “That good faith and oaths have been
disregarded.” What this means by itself, I cannot easily explain;
but from that which follows, I suspect that it refers to the manifest
perjury of your judges, from whom, some time ago, the money which they had
received would have been taken away, if they had not entreated the
protection of the senate. And this is the reason why I imagine
that they are the persons alluded to, because I lay it down as a fact that
that is the most remarkable and notorious perjury ever committed in this
city and yet that you yourself are not threatened with the punishment of
perjury by those men with whom you conspired.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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