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For,
up to the time of that trial, Habitus had never made any will. For he could not make up his
mind to bequeath anything to such a mother as his, nor, on the other hand, to leave his
parent's name entirely out of his will. And as Oppianicus was aware of that, for it was no
secret, he plainly saw, that, if Habitus were dead, all his property would come to his mother;
and she might afterwards, when she had become richer, and had lost her son, be put out of the
way by him, with more profit, and with less danger. So now see in what manner he, being urged
on by these desires, endeavoured to take off Habitus by poison.
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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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