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And after he had been missed a day or two, and could
not be found in those places in which he was usually to be sought for, and as Oppianicus was
constantly saying in the forum at Larinum that he
and his friends had lately witnessed his will, the freedmen of Asinius and some of his
friends, because it was notorious that on the last day that Asinius had been seen, Avilius had
been with him, and had been seen with him by many people, proceed against him, and bring him
before Quintus Manilius, who at that time was a triumvir. 1 And Avilius at once, without
any witness or any informer appearing against him, being agitated by the consciousness of his
recent wickedness, relates everything as I have now stated it, and confesses that Asinius had
been murdered by him according to the plan of Oppianicus.
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1 There were many triumviri, but the triumviri capitales, which are meant here, were regular magistrates elected by the people, they succeeded to many of the functions of the quaestores parricidii, and in many points they resembled the magistracy of the Eleven at Athens. Their court appears to have been near the Maenian Column. Vide Smith, Dict. Ant. p, 1009, v. Triumvir.
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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