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What more? Did not your father, O Oppianicus, beyond all question, murder your grandmother
Dinea, whose heir you are? who, when he had brought to her his own physician, a well-tried man
and often victorious, (by whose means indeed he had slain many of his enemies,) exclaimed that
she positively would not be attended by that man, through whose attention she had lost all her
friends. Then immediately he goes to a man of Ancona, Lucius Clodius, a travelling quack, who had come by accident at that
time to Larinum, and arranges with him for four
hundred sesterces, as was shown at the time by his account-books. Lucius Clodius, being a man
in a hurry, as he had many more market towns to visit, did the business off-hand, as soon as
he was introduced; he took the woman off with the first draught he gave her, and did not stay
at Larinum a moment afterwards.
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