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other was no less probable, and, as I believe, was even more generally believed in Sardinia,
namely, that Aris, that witness and host of yours, O Triarius, when departing for Rome, had
entrusted the commission to his freedman, not indeed to offer open violence to that old woman,
for that would not have been right to his mistress, but to press her throat with his two
fingers, and then to fasten a little cord round it, so that she might be supposed to have died
by hanging.
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