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In the second place, if the
weight attached to this accusation was so great, that, under whatever law any one of those
judges was prosecuted, he must be utterly ruined; then why, when there: are such crowds of
accusers, and when the reward is so great, were not the others prosecuted too? On this, that
case is mentioned, (which, however, has no right to be called a trial,) that an action for
damages was brought against Publius Septimius Scaevola on that account; and what the practice
is in cases of that sort, as I am speaking before men of the greatest learning, I have no need
to occupy much time in explaining. For the diligence which is usually displayed in other
trials, is never exercised after the defendant has been convicted.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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