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for she would have been
enjoying her property in common with him whom she wished to be the heir of her property, and
from whom she herself was receiving the greatest enjoyment of which she was capable. But or
this enjoyment she was prematurely deprived by the act of God; for in a short time the young
man, Marcus Fulcinius, died; he left Publius Caesennius his heir; he bequeathed to his wife an
immense sum of money, and to his mother the greater part of his landed property; and,
accordingly, the women divided the inheritance.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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