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To this Caesennia he had sold a farm in the district of Tarquinii, at a time of great commercial embarrassment;
for as he was employing the dowry of his wife, which he had received in ready money, he took
care, in order that she, being a woman, might have abundant security, to charge her dowry on
that farm. Some time afterwards, having given up his banking business, Fulcinius buys some
lands which are contiguous, and adjacent to this farm of his wife's. Fulcinius dies; (for I
will pass over many circumstances of the case, because they are unconnected with the subject
of this action;) in his will he makes his son, whom he had by Caesennia, his heir; he
bequeaths Caesennia a life interest in all his property, which she is to enjoy with his son.
The great honour paid her by her husband would have been very agreeable to the woman, if she
had been allowed to enjoy it long;
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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