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He would have slain him by night, in
a place calculated for an ambush and fall of robbers; no one would have
refused to believe him if he denied it, when now all men wish to save him
even when he confesses it. The brunt of the blame would have fallen on the
place itself, so well suited to receive and conceal robbers, while neither
the voiceless solitude would have informed against, nor the dark night
discovered Milo; secondly, the numbers of men who had been insulted by
Clodius, or plundered by him, or stripped of all their property by him,
many, too, who were in constant fear of such misfortunes, would have fallen
under suspicion; in short, the whole of Etruria would have been impeached in
people's opinion.
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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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