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Life of Cicero

CHAPTER IV
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What do you want more?
Why do you persecute me further?
In what do you think that I shall hurt you?
How do I interfere with you?
In what do I oppose you?
Is it your wish to kill a man for the sake of plunder?
You have your plunder.

If for the sake of hatred, what hatred can you feel against him of whose land you have taken possession before you had even known him ?"[65] Of all this, which is the advocate's appeal to pity, we may believe as little as we please.

Cicero is addressing the judge, and desires only an acquittal.

But the argument shows that no overt act in quest of restitution had as yet been made.

Nevertheless, Chrysogonus feared such action, and had arranged with the two Tituses that something should be done to prevent it.


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