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When this purchase had been made, the
money was paid by Caesennia; and of this that man thinks that no account can be produced,
because he himself has detained her account-books, and because he has the account-books of the
banker in which the money is entered as having been paid by him, and credit is given to him
for it, as having been received from him; as if it could have been properly done in any other
manner. When everything had been settled in thus way, as we are now stating in this defence of
ours, Caesennia took possession of the farm and let it; and not long afterwards she married
Aulus Caecina. To cut the matter short, the woman died having made a will. She makes Caecina
her heir to the extent of twenty-three twenty-fourths of her fortune; of the remaining
twenty-fourth she leaves two-thirds to Marcus Fulcinius, a freedman of her first husband, and
one-third she leaves to Aebutius. This seventy-second part of her property she meant to be a
reward to him for the interest he had taken in her affairs, and for any trouble that they
might have caused him. But he thinks that he can make this small fraction a handle for
disputing the whole.
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