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How then was it, that he was so correct in the day? I told you that just now.
There was no great difficulty in knowing the regular days of sacrifice for
the dictator of Lanuvium. He saw that it was necessary for Milo to go to
Lanuvium on the very day in which he did go,—therefore, he
anticipated him. But on what day? Why, on the day on which, as I have said
before, there was a most furious assembly of the people, stirred up by the
tribune of the people whom he had in his pay—a day, and an
assembly, and an uproar which he would never have missed if he had not been
hastening to some premeditated crime. Therefore, he had not only no reason
for going on a journey, but he had even a reason for stopping at home. Milo
had no possibility of stopping at home, and he had not only a reason, but a
positive necessity for going on a journey. What more? Suppose, while he knew
that Milo must go on the road on that day, so, on the other hand, Milo could
not even suspect that Clodius would?
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