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Not many years ago they say that Titius Cloelius, a citizen of Terracina, a well-known man, when, having supped, he had
retired to rest in the same room with his two youthful sons, was found in the morning
with his throat cut: when no servant could be found nor any free man, on whom suspicion
of the deed could be fixed, and his two sons of that age lying near him said that they
did not even know what had been done; the sons were accused of the parricide. What
followed? it was, indeed, a suspicious business; that neither of them were aware of it,
and that some one had ventured to introduce himself into that chamber, especially at
that time when two young men were in the same place, who might easily have heard the
noise and defended him. Moreover, there was no one on whom suspicion of the deed could
fall.
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