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And she was not only diligent in providing an
accuser for her son, but she also planned how to furnish him with the requisite weapons. Hence
were all those tamperings with the slaves, both by means of threats and of promises; hence
those repeated and cruel investigations into the death of Oppianicus; to which at last it was
not the moderation of the woman, but the authority of her friends that put a limit. From the
same wickedness proceeded that investigation conducted at Larinum three years afterwards. The
false reports of the investigation were fabricated by the same frantic criminality. From that
same frenzy proceeded also that abominable cutting out of her victim's tongue; and lastly, the
whole contrivance of this accusation has been managed and carried out by her.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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