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Then in the meantime, in the consulship of
Hortensius and Metellus, in order that she might persuade Oppianicus, who was occupied about
other matters, and thinking of nothing of the sort, to this accusation, she betroths to him
against his will her own daughter, her whom she had borne to his father-in-law, in order that
she might have him in her power, now that he was bound to her by this marriage, and also by
the hope of her will. Nearly about the same time, Strato, that great physician, committed a theft and murder in his own house in
the following manner: —As there was in his house a chest, in which he knew there was
a good deal of money and gold, he murdered by night two slaves, while they were asleep, and
threw their bodies into a fishpond. Then he cut out the bottom of the chest, and took out . .
. . sesterces, and five pounds' weight of gold, with the knowledge of one of his slaves, a boy
not grown up.
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