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Although, O judges, if they have found any fault in me which is not connected
with the case of my present client, I am not much disturbed about that; for
I am not afraid that, because it is a very rare thing to meet with grateful
men, on that account it can really be considered as a charge against me when
those men say that I am too grateful. But as for the points that have been
urged by them, when they have said either that the services done me by
Cnaeus Plancius were of less importance than I make them out to be; or that
if they were ever so great, still they ought not to have that weight with
you which I considered them entitled to; these points, O
judges, must be touched on by me with moderation, indeed, lest I should give
any offence myself; and not until I have fully replied to the accusations
brought against him, lest my client should seem to have been defended not so
much by his own innocence, as by the recollection of his conduct at the time
of my necessity.
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