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For what, O judges, is more full of labour
than we both are, what can be either expressed or imagined more full of
anxiety and uneasiness than we are, who being induced to devote ourselves to
the republic by the hope of the most honourable rewards, yet cannot be free
from the fear of the most cruel punishments? I have always thought indeed
that Milo had to encounter the other storms and tempests in these billows of
the assemblies because he always espoused the cause of the good against the
bad; but in a court of justice, and in that council in which the most
honourable men of all ranks are sitting as judges, I never imagined that
Milo's enemies could have any hope of diminishing his glory by the aid of
such men, much less of at all injuring his safety.
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