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Well, be it so; what reason had he for hastening to Rome? for
starting at nightfall? Why should the fact of his being his heir cause him
to make so much haste? In the first place, there was no reason why there
should be need of any haste; secondly, even if there was, still what was
there which he could obtain that night, but which he would lose if he
arrived at Rome early the next morning? And as an arrival in the city by
night was rather to be avoided by him than to be desired, so it was just
suited for Milo to lie in ambush and wait for him, as he was a plotter of
that sort, if he knew that he was likely to come to the city by night.
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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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