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I see, O Romans, that some men are making a noise to imply something or other, and that
they no longer show me the same countenance in this present assembly which they showed me at
the last assembly in which I addressed you. Wherefore, I entreat you, who have believed none
of my enemies' stories about me, to retain the same favourable disposition towards me that
you always had; but from you, whom I perceive to be a little changed towards me, I beg the
loan of your good opinion of me for a short time, on condition of your retaining it forever,
if I prove to you what I am going to say, but abandoning it and trampling it under foot in
this very place if I fail to establish it.
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