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This is
what I complain of first of all,—that wickedness which is now at length thoroughly
revealed, of the poisoning of Fabricius; which, being then recent, was suspicious to others,
incredible to him, but which now appears plain and evident to everybody. In fact, his mother
is hardly concealed in that act of poisoning; nothing was devised by Oppianicus without the
counsel of that woman; and unless that had been the case, certainly she would not afterwards,
when the affair was detected, have departed from him as from a wicked husband, but she would
have fled from him as from a most pitiless enemy, and she would have for ever left that house
overflowing with every imaginable wickedness.
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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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