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And if I were to speak of these
matters as they ought to be spoken of, I should, O judges, press more strongly than I have as
yet done, the point of how much credit it was reasonable for you to give Asiatic witnesses. I
should recall your recollections to the time of the Mithridatic war, to that miserable and
inhuman massacre of all the Roman citizens, in so many cities, at one and the same moment. I
should remind you of our praetors who were surrendered, of our ambassadors who were thrown
into prison, of almost all memory of the Roman name and every trace of its empire effaced, not
only from the habitations of the Greeks, but even from their writings. They called Mithridates
a god, they called him their father and the preserver of Asia, they called him Evius, Nysius,
Bacchus, Liber.
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