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You found no motive in Sextus Roscius; but I do
find one in Titus Roscius For I have to do with you now, O Titus Roscius, since you are
sitting there and openly professing yourself an enemy. We shall see about Capito
afterwards, if he comes forward as a witness as I hear he is ready to do then he shall
hear of other victories of his, which he does not suspect that I ever even heard. That
Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to consider a most impartial and able judge,
used constantly to ask at trials, “to whom it had been any
advantage?” The life of men is so directed that no one attempts to proceed to
crime without some hope of advantage.
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