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What then are we to say? I fear
forsooth lest I should either use language severer than men's nature is inclined to
bear, or else more gentle than the cause requires. You say that the recognizances were
forfeited. Quinctius the moment he returned to Rome asked you on what day the recognizances were drawn. You answered at
once, on the fifth of February. Quinctius, when departing, began to recollect on what
day he left Rome for Gaul: he goes to his journal, he finds the day of his
departure set down, the thirty-first of January. If he was at Rome on the fifth of February we have nothing to say
against his having entered into recognizances with you.
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