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And I know not whether I need think it equally necessary to make a reply to
the charges of corruption, and to the accusations about clubs and agents
(since I have lighted on these topics). For Caelius would never have been so
insane as to accuse another man of bribery, if he had stained himself with
that mean practice of corruption, nor would he seek to fix a suspicion of
such conduct on another, when he wished to obtain for himself perpetual
licence to commit it. Nor if he thought there was a chance of his being put
in peril but once on an accusation of corruption would he twice over
prosecute another man on the same charge. And although his doing so is not
wise, and is against my will, still it is an action of such a sort, that it
is plain that a man who conducts himself so, rather thinks it open to him to
attack the innocence of another, than that he has any reason
to be afraid of anything on his own account.
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