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And you keep crying out, O Laterensis, “How long are you going to
keep on saying this? You did no good in the case of Cispius; people have got
tired of your entreaties.” Will you object to me what I did in the
case of Cispius, who had indeed deserved well of me, but whom I defended,
having you for a witness in his favour, and at your especial request? And
will you say “How long” to a man who you say was unable
to obtain what he begged on behalf of Cispius? For to say “How
long” to a man who exerted himself for one friend alone and who
did not succeed in his object is rather like laughing at a person than
reproving him, unless perhaps, I, above all other men, have behaved in such
a manner in the courts of justice, have lived in such a manner with those
men who are the judges and among them—unless I am such an advocate
of defendants on their trial and unless I am, and always have been, such a
citizen in the republic, as to deserve to he held up by you as the only
person who never ought to obtain anything from the judges by my
entreaties.
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