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“Yes, for I was not at
Rhodes,” says he (He
means that I was) “But I was,” says he, (I thought he
was going to say, at Vacca,1) “twice at
Nicaea, in
Bithynia” If the place gives a person any handle for finding fault
with one, I know not why you should think Nicaea stricter than Rhodes if we are to examine into the cause, then you were
in Bithynia with the greatest
credit, and I was at Rhodes with no
less. For as to the point on which you found fault with me, namely, that I
had defended too many people, I wish that you who are able to do it and
others too, who shirk it, were willing to relieve me of this labour. But the
effect of your diligence, who weigh causes so carefully that you reject
almost all of them, is that nearly all causes come to me who am not able to
deny anything to men who are in misery and distress.
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