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For there is one especial most important charge concerning corn, and applying to the whole
of Sardinia, about which Triarius questioned all the Sardinians; and that was corroborated by
the agreement and unanimity of evidence of all the witnesses. And before I touch upon that
charge, I beg of you, O judges, to allow me to lay down a few principles to serve, as it were,
for the foundations of our whole defence. And if they are once laid down, and established
according to my intentions and expectations, I shall then fear no part of the prosecution.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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