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If you were not
hearing of this transaction, but were looking at a picture of it still it
would be quite visible which of the two was the plotter which was thinking
no evil, when one of the two was driving in a chariot wrapped up in a
mantle, with his wife sitting by his side. It is hard to say which was the
greatest hindrance to him, his dress, or his carriage, or his wife. How
could a man be less ready for battle than when he was entangled in a mantle
as in a net, hampered with a carriage, and fettered as it were by his wife
clinging to him? Look, on the other hand, at Clodius, first setting out from
his villa; all on a sudden: why? It was evening. Why was he forced to set
out at such a time? Going slowly. What was the object of that especially at
that time of night? He turns aside to the villa of Pompeius. To see
Pompeius? He knew that he was near Alsium. To see the villa?
He had been in it a thousand times. What then, was his object? Delay; he
wanted to waste the time. He did not choose to leave the spot till Milo
arrived.
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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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