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But, considering how plain and simple my case is, O judges, the line to be
taken by me in defending it is exceedingly difficult and slippery. For if it
were merely necessary for me to argue against Laterensis, yet even this
would be a very vexatious thing, considering our great friendship and
intimacy; for it is an old principle of genuine and real friendship, such as
subsists between him and me, that friends should always have the same
wishes; nor is there any surer bond of friendship than an agreement in and
community of designs and wishes. But the most annoying circumstance to me in
the case is, not that I have merely to argue against him, but much more,
that I have to argue against him in a cause in which it seems impossible to
avoid drawing some comparison between the parties themselves.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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