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Qua vociferatione in ceteris iudiciis accusatores uti consuerunt, ea nos hoc tempore utimur qui causam dicimus. Petimus abs te, M. Fanni, a vobisque, iudices, ut quam acerrime maleficia vindicetis, ut quam fortissime hominibus audacissimis resistatis, ut hoc cogitetis, nisi in hac causa, qui vester animus sit, ostendetis, eo prorumpere hominum cupiditatem et scelus et audaciam, ut non modo clam, verum etiam hic in foro ante tribunal tuum, M. Fanni, ante pedes vestros, iudices, inter ipsa subsellia caedes futurae sint.
Though the defending party, we are now using the tirade which in other trials is generally used by the accusers. We ask you, M. Fannius, and you, gentlemen, to avenge misdeeds as severely as possible, to resist terribly presumptuous people as bravely as possible, and to bear in mind that, unless you show in this trial what your spirit is, people's greed, villainy, and presumptuousness will explode to the point that there will be killings done not only in secret, but even here in the forum before your tribunal, M. Fannius, and at your feet between the very benches, gentlemen.
Qua vociferatione in ceteris iudiciis accusatores uti consuerunt, ea nos hoc tempore utimur qui causam dicimus. Petimus abs te, M. Fanni, a vobisque, iudices, ut quam acerrime maleficia vindicetis, ut quam fortissime hominibus audacissimis resistatis, ut hoc cogitetis, nisi in hac causa, qui vester animus sit, ostendetis, eo prorumpere hominum cupiditatem et scelus et audaciam, ut non modo clam, verum etiam hic in foro ante tribunal tuum, M. Fanni, ante pedes vestros, iudices, inter ipsa subsellia caedes futurae sint.
Though the defending party, we are now using the tirade which in other trials is generally used by the accusers. We ask you, M. Fannius, and you, gentlemen, to avenge misdeeds as severely as possible, to resist terribly presumptuous people as bravely as possible, and to bear in mind that, unless you show in this trial what your spirit is, people's greed, villainy, and presumptuousness will explode to the point that there will be killings done not only in secret, but even here in the forum before your tribunal, M. Fannius, and at your feet between the very benches, gentlemen.