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“But perhaps they would have proceeded to attack me.” This, in their
desperate case, is neither a speech nor a defence, but a mere guess, a sort of divination.
Were they coming to attack him? Whom? Fabius. With what intention? To kill him. Why? to gain
what? how did you find it out? And that I may set forth a plain case as briefly as possible,
is it possible to doubt, O judges, which side seems to have been the attacking
party?—
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