Some peripheral aspects of the speech Pro Cluentio
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Authors
Robinson, F.O.
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2005
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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.
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Robinson FO. 2005, 'Some peripheral aspects of the speech Pro Cluentio', Fundamina, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 265-277.
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University of South Africa
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1021-545X