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If anyone, O Titus Attius, were to wish to
prosecute you before me as judge, you would cry out that you were not liable under the law
about extortion. Nor would this demurrer of yours be any confession that you had appropriated
the money illegally; but it would be merely a refusal to encounter a labour and a danger which
you were not obliged to encounter by the law.
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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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