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A prosecution for theft is commenced against him.
For what else can any one suspect? Do you say this, that when a chest had been pillaged, money
taken away, only some of it recovered, and when men had been murdered, that then an
investigation into the death of Oppianicus was instituted? Who will you get to believe that?
What is that you could possibly allege, that would be less possible? In the next place, to
pass over the other points, was an investigator made into the death of Oppianicus three years
after that death?—Yes, and being exasperated against him on account of her former
grudge, she then, without the slightest reason, demanded that same Nicostratus, in order to
submit him to the question. Oppianicus at first refused. After she threatened that she would
take her daughter away from him, and alter her will, he, I will not say brought his most
faithful servant to that most cruel woman, for her to subject him to the question, but he
clearly gave him up to her for punishment.
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