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He was
slain returning home from supper. It was not yet dawn when it was known at Ameria. Why was this incredible speed? What does this
extraordinary haste and expedition intimate? I do not ask who struck the blow; you have
nothing to fear, O Glaucia. I do not shake you to see if you have any weapon about you.
I am not examining that point; I do not think I am at all concerned with that. Since I
have found out by whose design he was murdered, by whose hand he was murdered I do not
care. I assume one point, which your open wickedness and the evident state of the case
gives me. Where, or from whom, did Glaucia hear of it? Who knew it so immediately?
Suppose he did hear of it immediately; what was the affair which compelled to take so
long a journey in one night? What was the great necessity which pressed upon him, so as
to make him, if he was going to Ameria of
his own accord, set out from Rome at that time
of night, and devote no part of the night to sleep?
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