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atque
in illo iudicio cum Scamandrum nos defendere videremur,
verbo ille reus erat, re quidem vera et periculo tota1 accusatione
Oppianicus. neque id obscure ferebat nec dissimulare
ullo modo poterat; aderat frequens, advocabat, omni
studio gratiaque pugnabat; postremo — id quod maximo malo
illi causae fuit — hoc ipso in loco, quasi reus ipse esset, sedebat.
oculi omnium iudicum non in Scamandrum sed in
Oppianicum coniciebantur; timor eius, perturbatio, suspensus
incertusque voltus, crebra coloris mutatio, quae erant
antea suspiciosa, haec aperta et2 manifesta faciebant.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1908. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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