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But since my speech appears at last to have raised itself out of the
shallows, and to have passed by the rocks, the rest of my course is made
plain and easy to me. For there are two charges, both relating to one
woman,—both imputing enormous wickedness; one respecting the gold
which is said to have been received from Clodia, the other respecting the
poison which the prosecutors accuse Caelius of having prepared with the view
of assassinating Clodia. He took gold, as you say, to give to the slaves of
Lucius Lucceius, by whom Dio of Alexandria was slain, who at that time was living in
Lucceius's house. It is a great crime to intrigue against ambassadors, or to
tamper with slaves to induce them to murder their master's guest; it is a
design full of wickedness, full of audacity.
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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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