Nam M. Antonio remittendum convicium est, qui idcirco se aiebat nullam orationem scripsisse, ut si quid superiore iudicio actum ei quem postea defensurus esset nociturum foret, non dictum a se adfirmare posset, quia facti vix pudentis causam tolerabilem habuit: pro periclitantium enim capite non solum eloquentia sua uti, sed etiam verecundia abuti erat paratus.
We have to remit our censure of M. Antonius, who used to say that he never put a speech in writing so that if something said at an earlier trial would damage a subsequent client he could deny having said it. He had a tolerable excuse for a scarcely honourable proceeding, for on behalf of men in jeopardy he was ready not only to use his eloquence but even to abuse his sense of decency.
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