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What! would you have suffered it? Listen, O judges; for I
must strive with all my sinews, and labour earnestly to make all men perceive how
infamous, how evident, how undeniable a crime they are seeking to efface by means of
money. This is a grave charge, a serious charge,—it is the most serious
one which has been made in the memory of man, ever since trials for peculation and
extortion were first instituted,—that a praetor of the Roman people has
had collectors of the tenths for his partners.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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