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and therefore that cause was so thoroughly sifted and laid open by me,
that the judges seemed not so much to hear the facts which I related, as to see them and lay
hold of them. For it seemed neither reasonable nor honest for me, when I had undertaken the
cause of a most faithful and ancient province, to learn the particulars of it as I might have
done in the case of an individual client, in my chamber.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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