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It would be becoming for even you yourself, O Torquatus, to be by this time
satisfied with the miseries of my client. Although you had taken nothing from Sulla except the
consulship, yet you ought to be content with that for it was a contest for honour, and not
enmity, which originally induced you to take up this cause. But now that, together with his
honour, everything else has been taken from him,—now that he is desolate, crushed by
this miserable and grievous fortune, what is there which you can wish for more? Do you wish to
deprive him of the enjoyment of the light of day, full as it is to him of tears and grief, in
which he now lives amid the greatest grief and torment? He would gladly give it up, if you
would release him from the foul imputation of this most odious crime. Do you seek to banish
him as an enemy, when, if you were really hard-hearted, you would derive greater enjoyment
from seeing his miseries than from hearing of them?
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