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She seduced the mind of the young man, not yet matured by
wisdom and reason, with all those temptations with which that early age can be charmed and
allured. Her daughter, who was tormented not only with the common indignation which all women
feel at injuries of that sort from their husbands, but who also was unable to endure the
infamous prostitution of her mother, of which she did not think that she could even complain
to any one without committing a sin herself, wished the rest of the world to remain in
ignorance of this her terrible misfortune, and wasted away in grief and tears in the arms and
on the bosom of Cluentius, her most affectionate brother.
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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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