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Vtrum, recuperatores, his testibus non credidistis,
cum quid liqueret non habuistis? at controversia non erat
quin verum dicerent. an in coacta multitudine, in armis, in
telis, in praesenti metu mortis perspicuoque periculo caedis
dubium vobis fuit inesse vis aliqua videretur necne? quibus
igitur in rebus vis intellegi potest, si in his non intellegetur?
an vero illa defensio vobis praeclara visa est:
'non deieci, sed obstiti; non enim sum passus in fundum
ingredi, sed armatos homines opposui, ut intellegeres, si in
fundo pedem posuisses, statim tibi esse pereundum?'
quid ais? is qui armis proterritus, fugatus, pulsus est, non
videtur esse deiectus?
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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