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And if I shall appear to go rather further back
in tracing the origin of the business than either the state of the law which is involved in
this trial, or the nature of the case compels me to, I beseech you to pardon me; for Aulus
Caecina is not less anxious to appear to have acted according to the strictest law, than he is
to obtain what by strict law is his due.
There was a man named Marcus Fulcinius, O judges, of the municipality of Tarquinii; who, in his own city, was reckoned one of the
most honourable men, and also had a splendid business at Rome as a banker. He was married to Caesennia, a woman of the same municipality,
a woman of the highest rank and most unimpeachable character, as he both showed while he was
alive by many circumstances, and declared also by his will at his death.
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