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Very true, says he, and when the
slaves had reported to their mistress the whole transaction and the guilty
designs of Caelius, that crafty woman enjoined her slaves to promise Caelius
everything; but in order that the poison when it was being delivered to them
by Licinius, might be clearly detected, she commanded them to appoint the
strangers' baths as the place where it was to he delivered in order to send
thither friends to lie in ambush there and then on a sudden, when Licinius
had arrived and was delivering the poison, to jump out, and arrest the man.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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