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There is one charge remaining, O judges; a charge of such a nature, that you may see from it
the truth of what I said at the beginning of my speech,—that whatever misfortune has
happened to Aulus Cluentius of late years, whatever anxiety or trouble he has at the present
time, has all been contrived by his mother. You say that Oppianicus was killed by poison,
which was administered to him in bread by some one of the name of Marcus Asellius, an intimate
friend of his own; and that that was done by the contrivance of Habitus. Now, in this matter,
I ask first of all what reason Habitus had for wishing to kill Oppianicus. For I admit that
ill-will did exist between them; but men only wish their enemies to be slain, either because
they fear them, or because they hate them.
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