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What is there likely to tell so heavily
against Cluentius as the stigma inflicted by the
censors? What can be more damaging than the fact
that Egnatius disinherited his son on the ground
that lie had been bribed to give a false verdict in
the trial in which Cluentius secured the condemnation of Oppianicus? But Cicero1
1 pro Cluent. xlviii. 135.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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