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And see now how much he loved you, who, though he
did not know whether you were white or black, passed over the son of his
brother, Quintus Fufius, a most honorable Roman knight, and most attached to
him, whom he had on all occasions openly declared his heir (he never even names
him in his will), and he makes you his heir whom he had never seen, or at all
events had never spoken to.
I wish you would tell me, if it is not too much trouble, what sort of countenance
Lucius Turselius was of; what sort of height; from what municipal town he came;
and of what tribe he was a member. “I know nothing,” you
will say, “about him, except what farms he had.” Therefore,
he, disinheriting his brother, made you his heir. And besides these instances,
this man has seized on much other property belonging to men wholly unconnected
with him, to the exclusion of the legitimate heirs, as if he himself were the
heir.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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