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In the meantime, as Clodius knew—and it was not hard to know
it—that Milo was forced to take a yearly, legitimate, necessary
journey on the twentieth of January to Lanuvium to appoint a priest,1 because Milo was dictator of Lanuvium, on a sudden
he himself left Rome the day before, in order (as was seen by the event) to
lay an ambush for Milo in front of his farm; and he departed, so that he was
not present at a turbulent assembly in which his madness was greatly missed,
and which was held that very day, and from which he never would have been
absent if he had not desired to avail himself of the place and opportunity
for a crime.
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1 It was the priest of Juno Sospita, who was the patroness of Lanuvium.
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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