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Having undertaken the business, when the cause had been
transferred to Rome, great contentions arose every
day between Habitus and Oppianicus from the zeal of each for the side which he espoused.
Oppianicus himself was a man of a bitter and savage disposition; and Habitus's own mother,
being hostile to and furious against her son, inflamed his insane hatred. But they thought it
exceedingly desirable for them to get rid of him, and to disconnect him from the cause of the
Martiales. There was also another more influential reason which had great weight with
Oppianicus, being a most avaricious and audacious man.
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