7. But if, say my opponents,
no damage is done to human affairs by you, whence arise those evils by
which wretched mortals are now oppressed and overwhelmed? You ask
of me a decided statement,3256
which is by no means necessary to this
cause. For no immediate and prepared discussion regarding it has
been undertaken by me, for the purpose of showing or proving from what
causes and for what reasons each event took place; but in order to
demonstrate that the reproaches of so
grave a charge are
far removed
from our door. And if I prove this, if by examples and
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| 3257
So the ms. si facto et,
corrected, however, by a later copyist, si facio ut, “if I
cause that,” etc. |
by powerful
arguments the truth of the matter is made clear, I care not
whence these evils come, or from
what sources and first beginnings they flow.
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