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It has been urged in the case for the prosecution, that
Caius Vibius Capax was taken off by poison by this Aulus Cluentius. It happens very seasonably
that a man is present, endowed with the greatest good faith, and with every virtue, Lucius
Plaetorius, a senator, who was connected by ties of hospitality with, and was an intimate
friend of that man Capax. He used to live with him at Rome; it was in his house that he was taken in, in his house that he died.
“But Cluentius is his heir.” I say that he died without a will, and that
the possession of his property was given by the praetor's edict to this man, his sister's son,
a most virtuous young man, and one held in the highest esteem for honourable conduct, Numerius
Cluentius, who is present in court.
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