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Here, O judges, if
I thought that you were influenced by the decrees of the Aemonensians, and by the letters of
the rest of the Phrygians, I should cry out, and argue with all the vigour of which I was
master. I should call to witness the publicans; I should invoke the traders; I should implore
the aid of your own consciences: the wax being seen, I should feel sure that the audacious
forgery of the whole evidence was evidently detected and discovered, and laid bare to you. But
at present I will not triumph too violently, nor be too much elated at this, nor will I
inveigh against that trifler as if he were a witness, nor will I allow myself to be moved at
all with respect to any part of this testimony of the Aemonensians, whether it has been forged
here, as appears likely on the face of it, or whether it can really been sent from Aemon, as
it is said to have been. In truth, I will not fear the evidence of the men to whom I make over
that panegyric, since, as Asclepiades says, they are utterly insignificant.
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