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Today is the fifth of August. You began to
assemble at the ninth hour. This day they do not even count. There are ten days
between this and the votive games which Cnaeus Pompeius is going to celebrate. These
games will take up fifteen days; then immediately the Roman games will follow. And
so, when nearly forty days have intervened, then at length they think they shall
have to answer what has been said by us; and they think that, what with speeches,
and what with excuses, they will easily be able to protract the cause till the
period of the games of Victory. With these the plebeian games are connected, after
which there will be either no day at all, or very few for pleading in. And so, when
the accusation has got stale and cold, the matter will come all fresh before Marcus
Metellus as praetor. And if I had distrusted his good faith, I should not have
retained him as a judge.
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