[20] I see, O judges, that this is a charge, important both from the sort of crime imputed, (for a tax is said to have been imposed on our produce, and I confess that a very large sum of money might have been amassed by that means,) and from its unpopular nature; for our adversaries have endeavoured to make this charge as widely known as possible, by making it the subject of their conversation. But I think that the more serious a charge is, which is proved to be false, the greater is the wickedness of that man who invented it; for he wishes by the magnitude of the accusation to prejudice the minds of those who hear it, so that the truth may afterwards find a difficult entrance into them.
[Everything relating to the charge about the wine, to the war with the Vocontii, and the arrangement of winter quarters, is wanting.] 10
[Everything relating to the charge about the wine, to the war with the Vocontii, and the arrangement of winter quarters, is wanting.] 10
Pro Fonteio. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.
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