Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero On Behalf of Publius Cornelius Sulla;
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But at the present moment I am not asking whether Cassius exonerates Sulla: it is quite enough for me that there is nothing against him in the depositions. XIV. ~ \A7nen this charge is closed against him Torquatus hurls himself again upon me, and accuses me : he says that I have made a false entry of what was said in the public records. Hearken to this, ye gods : for I attribute to you what is your own ; nor can I claim such credit for my own intellectual powers as to have discerned for myself ...all the matters of such great and such varied importance which burst suddenly upon the State at such a stormy crisis in its history : it was you^ and no one else, who then made my heart burn with the desire of saving my country : you who turned my mind from all other thoughts to consider only the safety of the State : you who, amid all the darkness of error and ignorance, set so clear a light before my mind. I fore- saw this, gentlemen, I saw that unless while the matter was fresh in the memory of the Senate I placed this information on record in the archives of the State, there would some day arise some one, not Torquatus nor any one like Torquatus — I was far from thinking of anything like that — but some man who had made shipwreck of his fortunes, a foe to peace, an enemy of all loyal citizens, who would say that these depositions had been other than they were, in order that by raising a storm against all the most loyal of your citizens, he might the more easily find a haven for his own troubles amid the troubled waters of the State.
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