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But, after having avoided this line of conduct, and
declined having those men for judges, who, as they must have had the most
certain knowledge of such conduct, were bound to feel the greatest
indignation at it what will you say before those men who silently ask of you
why you have imposed this burden upon them; why you have chosen them above
all men; why you prefer having them to proceed by guesswork, rather than
those men to decide who had means of knowing the truth?
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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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