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Many men have
done the same in the times of our ancestors. Lately, too, that most eminent man
Cnaeus Domitius did so, who accused Marcus Silanus, a man of consular rank, on
account of the injuries done by him to Egritomarus of the Transalpine country, his
friend. I should think it became me to follow the example of their good feeling and
regard for their duty; and I should hold out hope to my friends and connections to
think that they would live a safer life owing to my protection. But when the cause
of Sthenius draws along with it the common calamity of the whole province, and when
many of my friends and connections are being defended by me at the same time, both
in their public and private interests, I ought not in truth to fear that any one can
suppose that I have done what I have in undertaking this cause under the pressure
and compulsion of any motive except that of the strictest duty.
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