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Had then those Roman knights, whom we ourselves have seen who have lately flourished in the
republic, and in the courts, so much courage and so much vigour as to refuse belief to Marcus
Scaurus when a witness; and are you afraid to disbelieve the evidence of the Volcae and of the
Allobroges? If it was not right to give credence to a hostile witness, was Crassus more
hostile to Marcellus, or Scaurus to Fimbria, on account of any political differences, or any
domestic quarrels, than the Gauls are to Fonteius? For of the Gauls, those even who stand on
the best ground have been compelled once and again, and sorely against their will, to furnish
cavalry, money, and corn; and of the rest, some have been deprived of their land in ancient
wars, some have been overwhelmed and subdued in war by this very man.
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