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But Milo, as he had been that day in the
senate till it was dismissed, came home, changed his shoes and his garments,
waited a little, as men do, while his wife was getting ready, and then
started at the time when Clodius might have returned, if, indeed, he had
been coming to Rome that day. Clodius meets him unencumbered on horseback,
with no carriage, with no baggage, with no Greek companions, as he was used
to, without his wife, which was scarcely ever the case; while this plotter,
who had taken, forsooth, that journey for the express purpose of murder, was
driving with his wife in a carriage, in a heavy travelling cloak, with
abundant baggage, and a delicate company of women, and maidservants, and boys.
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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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