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But why keep on so long discussing and expostulating about the letters of Falcidius, or
about Andron Sextilius, or about the income of Decianus, and say nothing about the safety of
fortunes of the state, and the general interests of the republic? the whole of which are at
stake in this trial, and are resting on your shoulders,—on yours, I say, you who are
our judges. You see in what critical times, in what uncertain and variable circumstances, we
are all at present placed.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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