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“Yes, indeed, I have done everything which you say; and my conduct was turbulent,
and rash, and hazardous. What then; I did it all with impunity; for you have no means of
proceeding against me by civil action before the praetor?” Is it so, O judges? Will
you listen to this? and will you permit such a thing to be said before you more than once?
When our ancestors were men of such diligence and prudence as to establish every requisite
law, not only for such important cases as this, but for even the most trivial matters, and to
prosecute all offences against them, will you allow that they overlooked this class of cases,
the most important of all; so that, if people had compelled me to depart from my home by force
of arms, I should have had a right of action, but as they only prevented me from entering my
home, I have none? I am not yet arguing the particular case of Caecina, I am not yet speaking
of our own particular right of possession. I am resting my complaint wholly on your defence, O
Caius Piso.
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