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            <request>
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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi004.perseus-eng2:21</requestUrn>
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            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi004.perseus-eng2:21</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="lat"><body><div type="translation" xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi004.perseus-eng2"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="21" resp="perseus"><p>Even if they were silent they would say plainly enough why they are unwilling. But they
            are not silent; and yet will you offer yourself, when they are most unwilling to accept
            you! Will you still persist in speaking in the cause of others? Will you still defend
            those men who would rather be deserted by every one than defended by you? Will you still
            promise your assistance to those men who do neither believe that you wish to give it for
            their sake, nor that, if you did wish it, you could do it? Why do you endeavour to take
            away from them by force the little hope for the remainder of their fortunes which they
            still retain, built upon the impartiality of the law and of this tribunal? Why do you
            interpose yourself expressly against the will of those whom the law directs to be
            especially consulted? Why do you now openly attempt to ruin the whole fortunes of those
            of whom you did not deserve very well when in the province? Why do you take away from
            them, not only the power of prosecuting their rights, but even of bewailing their
            calamities?</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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