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Let then this refuge be open to indignation, let it be open to just
complaints, but let the path be closed against conspiracy, let it be closed against treachery:
and this not more among the Sardinians than among the Gauls, among the Africans, and among the
Spaniards. Titus Albucius was condemned; Caius Meguboccus was condemned on account of
complaints proceeding from Sardinia, though some of the Sardinians even praised him. And in
that case the very variety of their sentiments gained them the more credit. For those men were
convicted by fair witnesses, and by documents which no one had tampered with.
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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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