That which was above all things to be desired, O judges, and which above all things
was calculated to have the greatest influence towards allaying the unpopularity of
your order, and putting an end to the discredit into which your judicial decisions
have fallen, appears to have been thrown in your way, and given to you not by any
human contrivance, but almost by the interposition of the gods, at a most important
crisis of the republic. For an opinion has now become established, pernicious to us,
and pernicious to the republic, which has been the common talk of every one, not
only at Rome, but among foreign nations
also,—that in the courts of law as they exist at present, no wealthy man,
however guilty he may be, can possibly be convicted.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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