Quae si omnia affatim retudi, si calumnias omnes refutavi, si me in omnibus non modo criminibus, verum etiam maledictis procul a culpa magiae tutus sum, si philosophiae honorem, qui mihi salute mea antiquior est, nusquam minui, immo contra ubique si cum septem pennis eum tenui: si haec, ut dico, ita sunt, possum securus existimationem tuam revereri quam potestatem vereri, quod minus grave et verendum mihi arbitror a proconsule damnari quam si a tam bono tamque emendato viro improbarer.
If I have sufficiently demolished all these charges, if I have refuted all their false accusations; if after all their charges, and likewise all their insults, I am safe from the charge of magic; if I have in no way lessened the dignity of Philosophy, which I value more than my own preservation, but rather upheld it on all points and with flying colors: if this is so, I repeat, I can respect your judgment with more confidence than I fear your authority. For a proconsuls guilty verdict is less grave or dreadful, I think, than the disapproval of a man so virtuous and so upright.
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