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What does this madness, what does this baste,
what does this precipitation intimate? Does it not prove violence? does it not prove
wickedness? does it not prove robbery? does it not, in short, prove everything rather
than right, than duty, or than modesty? You send some one without the command of the
praetor. With what intention? You knew he would order it. What then? When he had ordered
it, could you not have sent then? You were about to ask him. When? Thirty days after.
Yes, if nothing hindered you; if the same intention existed; if you were well; in short,
if you were alive. The praetor would have made the order, I suppose, if he chose, if he
was well, if he was in court, if no one objected, by giving security according to his
decree, and by being willing to stand a trial.
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