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You now know the cause of the enmity by which Decianus was excited to communicate to Laelius
this grand accusation against Flaccus. For Laelius framed his complaint in this way, when he
was speaking of the perfidy of Decianus: “He, who was my original informant; who
communicated the facts of the case; whom I have followed, he has been bribed by Flaccus, he
has deserted and abandoned me.” Have you, then, been the prime mover in bringing
that man into peril of all his; fortunes, whose counselor you had been, with whom you had
preserved all the privileges of your rank, a most virtuous man, a man born of a most noble
family, a man who had done great services to the republic? Forsooth, I will defend Decianus,
who has become suspected by you through no fault of his own.
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