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I say that there is
no one of all those men who were at Rome on that
day, which day you are now bringing as it were before the court,—that there was no
one of the youth of Rome, who did not take arms and follow the consuls; all those men, whose
conduct you can form a conjecture about from their age, are now impeached by you of a capital
crime, by your attack upon Caius Rabirius. But it was Rabirius who slew Saturninus. I wish
that he had done so. I should not be deprecating punishment for him; I should demand a reward
for him. In truth, if his freedom was given to Scaeva, a slave of Quintus Croto, who did slay
Lucius Saturninus, what reward ought to have been given to a Roman knight in a similar case?
And if Caius Marius, because he had caused drains to be cut, by which water was supplied to
the temple of the excellent and mighty Jupiter, and
because on the Capitoline Hill
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