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They gave their evidence a little while ago before this tribunal, at the same
time that we ourselves did. With what effrontery did they then repudiate the
charge of this ten thousand talents! You are acquainted by this time with
the absurd ways of the Greeks. They shrugged their shoulders at that time, I
suppose, in respect of the existing emergency; but now there is no such
necessity. When any one has once perjured himself he cannot be believed
afterwards, not even he swears by more gods than he did before; especially.
O judges, when in trials of this sort there is not usually any room for a
new witness; and on that account the same judges are retained who were
judges in the case of the original defendant, because everything is already
known to them, and nothing new can be invented.
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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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