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But those slaves have been emancipated by the advice of her
relations,—most highly born and illustrious men. At last then we
have found something which that woman is said to have done by the advice and
authority of her own relations,—men of the highest respectability
of character. But I wish to know what proof there is in that emancipation of
slaves, so that either any charge against Caelius can be made out of that,
or any examination of the slaves themselves by means of torture prevented,
or any pretext found for giving rewards to slaves who were privy to too many
transactions which it is desired to keep secret? But her relations advised
it. Why should not they advise it, when you yourself stated that you were
reporting to them a matter which you had not received information of from
others, but which had been discovered by yourself?
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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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