Some peripheral aspects of the speech Pro Cluentio

Abstract

Oppianicus was the man who was convicted of falsifying with his own hand the public records of his town, who forged a will, who by fraudulent personation secured the seals and signatures of witnesses to a sham will, who murdered the man in whose name it had been signed and sealed, who put to death his own son’s uncle when a slave and a captive, who secured the proscription and death of his own fellow-townsmen, who then married the widow of a man he had killed, who gave a bribe to procure an abortion, who murdered his mother-inlaw, murdered his wives, murdered at one and the same time his brother’s wife with her expected children and his brother himself, and finally murdered his own children, and who, intending to give poison to his step-son was taken in the act [not Oppianicus himself but his tool, Scamander], and when haled to judgment after the conviction of his tools and accomplices bribed a juror to tamper with the other jurors’votes.