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You have, therefore, O Caesar, no sign as yet of the affections of Quintus
Ligarius being alienated from you. And observe, I entreat you, with what
good faith I am defending his cause. I am betraying my own by so doing. O
the admirable clemency, deserving to be celebrated by all possible praise,
and publicity, and writings, and monuments! Marcus Cicero is urging in
Ligarius's defence before you, that the inclinations of another were not the
same as he admits his own to have been; nor does he fear your silent
thoughts, nor is he under any apprehension as to what while you are hearing
of the conduct of another, may occur to you respecting his own.
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