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For I ask why that army under the command of the woman allowed Licinius, when
embarrassed, hesitating, receding, and endeavouring to fly, to slip through
their fingers? why they did not seize him? why they did not prove beyond all
denial a crime of such enormous wickedness by his own confession, by the
eye-witness of many people, by even the voice of the crime itself if I may
say so? Were they afraid that so many men would not be able to get the
better of one, that strong men would not be able to beat a weak man, or
active men to surprise one in such a fright?
No corroborative proof is to be found in the circumstances; no ground for
suspicion in any part of the case, no object for or result of the crime, can
be imagined. Therefore, this cause, instead of being supported by arguments,
by conjecture, and by those tokens by which the truth generally has a light
thrown upon it rests wholly on the witnesses. And those witnesses, O judges,
I long to see, not only without the least apprehension, but with a soft of
hope of great enjoyment.
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