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Therefore when Cnaeus Magius, the uncle of that young Oppianicus, had become acquainted with
the habits and audacity of this man, and, being stricken with a sore disease, had made him,
his sister's son, his heir, summoning his friends, in the presence of his mother Dinea, he
asked his wife whether she was in the family way; and when she said that she was, he begged of
her after his death to live with Dinea who was her mother-in-law, till she was confined, and
to take great care to preserve and to bring forth alive the child that she had conceived.
Accordingly, he leaves her in his will a large sum, which she was to receive from his child if
a child was born, but leaves her nothing from the reversionary heir.
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