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There is another poisoning charge. They say that poison was, by the contrivance of Habitus,
prepared for this young Oppianicus, when, according to the custom of the citizens of Larinum,
a large party was dining at his wedding feast; that, as it was being administered in mead, a
man of the name of Balbutius, his intimate friend, intercepted it on its way, drank it, and
died immediately. If I were to deal with this charge as one that required to be refuted, I
should treat those matters at great length, which, as it is, my speech will pass over in a few
words.
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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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