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What do you say, O Titus Attius? will you
bring before the court matter involving danger to a man's life, will you bring forward the
information laid with respect to this wickedness, and the fortunes of another, all written
down in this document, and yet refuse to name the author of this document, or the witness, or
any one who will in any respect confirm it? And will such men as these judges, before whom we
stand, approve of this destruction which you have drawn forth out of the mother's bosom
against her most innocent son? Be it so then; these documents have no author. What next? Why
is not the investigation itself reserved for the judges; for the friends and connections of
Oppianicus, whom she had invited to be present before, and for this identical time? What was
done to these men, Strato and Nicostratus?
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