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When this Dinea was making her will, Oppianicus, who was her son-in-law,
having taken the papers, effaced the legacies she bequeathed in it with his finger; and as he
had done this in many places, after her death, being afraid of being detected by all those
erasures, he had the will copied over again, and had it signed and sealed with forged seals. I
pass over many things on purpose. And indeed I fear lest I may appear to have said too much as
it is. But you must suppose that he has been consistent with himself in every other
transaction of his life. All the senators 1 of Larinum decided that he had tampered with the public registers of the censors of
that city. No one would have any account with him; no one would transact any business with
him. Of all the connections and relations that he had, no one ever left him guardian to his
children. No one thought him fit to call on, or to meet in the street, or to talk to, or to
dine with.
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1 The term in the original is decuriones. In the colonies “the name of the senate was ordo decurionum, in later times simply ordo or curia, the members of it were decuriones or curiales. Thus in the later ages, curia is opposed to senatus, the former being the senate of a colony, and the latter the senate of Rome.”—Smith, Dict. Ant. p. 259. v. Colonia.
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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