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Although,
who would believe that Cnaeus Pompeius, a man most thoroughly versed in
public law, in the usages of our ancestors, and in all the affairs of the
republic, after the senate has entrusted to him the charge of taking care
“that the republic suffered no injury,” by which one
line the consuls have always been sufficiently armed, even though no warlike
weapons were given to them,—that he, I say, after having had an
army and a levy of troops given to him, would wait for a legal decision to
repress the designs of that man who was seeking by violence to abolish the
courts of justice themselves?
It was sufficiently decided by Pompeius, quite sufficiently, that all those
charges were falsely brought against Milo; when he passed a law by which, as
I conceive, he was bound to be acquitted by you,— at all events,
as all men allow, might legally be acquitted.
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