Cato vero superior, saepenumero ab inimicis ad causae dictionem vocatus nec ullo umquam crimine convictus, ad ultimum tantum fiduciae in sua innocentia reposuit ut ab iis in quaestionem publicam deductus Ti. Gracchum, a quo in administratione rei publicae ad multum odium dissidebat, iudicem deposceret.
The elder Cato was often put on his defence by his enemies but never convicted on any charge. In the end he put such confidence in his own innocence that when brought up by them before a public court he asked that Ti. Gracchus, with whom he had disagreed on public affairs to the generating of much ill will, be president of the court;
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