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When the judges were about to come to their decision, Caius Junius, the president, asked the
defendant, according to the provisions of the Cornelian law which then existed, whether he wished the decision to be come to
in his case secretly or openly. He replied by the advice of Oppianicus, because he said that
Junius was an intimate friend of Habitus, that he
wished the decision to be come to secretly. The judges deliberate. Scamander on the first
trial was convicted by every vote except one, which Stalenus said was his. Who in the whole
city was there at that time, who when Scamander was condemned, did not think that sentence had
been passed on Oppianicus? What point was decided by that conviction except that that poison
had been procured for the purpose of being given to Habitus? However, what suspicion of the
very slightest nature attached, or could attach to Scamander, so that he should be thought to
have desired of his own accord to kill Habitus?
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