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Will you doubt any longer, O judges, that that
which I stated to you at the beginning is most true, that there is another object in this
prosecution, beyond causing others, after Marcus Fonteius has been overwhelmed by the
testimonies of these men, from whom many contributions have been exacted, greatly against
their will, for the sake of the republic, to be for the future more lax in governing, when
they see these men attacked, who are such men that, if they are crushed, the empire of the
Roman people cannot be maintained in safety
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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