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—The woman who, according to the solemn
request of her husband, ought not for ten months to have ever entered any house but that of
her mother-in-law; five months after her husband's death married Oppianicus himself. But that
marriage did not last long, for it was entered into, not with any regard to the dignity of
wedlock, but from a partnership in wickedness.
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