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However, in this case we should be complying too much with
your good nature if we were willing to recover our rights by any process different from that
which we are adopting. For now, what man is there who thinks that violence offered by armed
men ought to be passed over; or who can show us a more moderate way of proceeding in so
atrocious a case? In the case, of offences of such a nature, that, as they keep crying out,
criminal trials and capital trials have been established on their account, can you find fault
with our severity when you see that we have done nothing more than claim possession of our
property by virtue of the praetor's interdict.
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