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But if he were as secret in acting as he is audacious in
attempting, perhaps in some particular he might some time or other have escaped our
notice. But it happens very fortunately that to his incredible audacity there is
joined a most unexampled folly. For as he was unconcealed in committing his
robberies of money, so in his hope of corrupting the judges he has made his
intentions and endeavours visible to every one. He says that once only in his life
has he felt fear: at the time when he was first impeached as a criminal by me;
because he was only lately arrived from his province, and was branded with
unpopularity and infamy, not modern but ancient and of long standing; and, besides
that, the time was unlucky, being very ill-suited for corrupting the judges.
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