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If, indeed,
(though I have no idea that that is possible,) you were to escape from these toils,
and effect your escape by any way or any method, you will then fall into that still
greater net, in which you must be caught and destroyed by me from the elevation in
which I stand. For even if I were to grant to him all that he urges in his defence,
yet that very defence must turn out not less injurious to him than my true
accusation.
For what does he urge in his defence? He says that he arrested men flying from Spain, and put them to death. Who gave you leave to do so? By what right did you do so? Who else did the same thing? How was it lawful for you to do so?
