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What connection had he with Habitus? None—nay rather, as he was a very intimate
friend of Oppianicus, he was rather an enemy to Habitus. Did he then pick out that man whom he
knew to be rather unfriendly to himself, and to be exceedingly intimate with Oppianicus, to be
above all others the instrument of his own wickedness, and of the other's danger, In the next
place, why do you, who have been prompted by pity to undertake this prosecution, leave this
Asellius so long unpunished? Why did not you follow the precedent of Habitus, and have a
previous examination, which should affect him, by means of an investigation into his conduct
who had administered the poison?
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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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