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(for why
should I mention that insignificant woman, Scantia, or that youth Aponius,
both of whom he threatened with death if they did not abandon to him the
possession of their villas?) but he dared to say to Furfanius, that if he
did not give him as much money as he demanded, he would carry a dead body
into his house, and so raise a storm of unpopularity against him; who turned
his brother Appius, a man connected with me by the most faithful friendship,
while he was absent out of the possession of his farm; who determined to run
a wall across the vestibule of his sister's house in such a manner, and to
draw the line of foundation in such a direction, as not only to deprive his
sister of her vestibule, but of all access to her house, and of her own
threshold.”
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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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