M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 38

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[38] And after he had been missed a day or two, and could not be found in those places in which he was usually to be sought for, and as Oppianicus was constantly saying in the forum at Larinum that he and his friends had lately witnessed his will, the freedmen of Asinius and some of his friends, because it was notorious that on the last day that Asinius had been seen, Avilius had been with him, and had been seen with him by many people, proceed against him, and bring him before Quintus Manilius, who at that time was a triumvir. ¹ And Avilius at once, without any witness or any informer appearing against him, being agitated by the consciousness of his recent wickedness, relates everything as I have now stated it, and confesses that Asinius had been murdered by him according to the plan of Oppianicus.

Pro A. Cluentio. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.

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For A. Cluentius (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.)

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Pro A. Cluentio Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) — 38 focus

[38] qui cum unum iam et alterum diem desideraretur neque in eis locis ubi ex consuetudine quaerebatur inveniretur, et Oppianicus in foro Larinatium dictitaret nuper se et suos amicos testamentum eius obsignasse, liberti Asuvi et non nulli amici, quod eo die quo postremum Asuvius visus erat Avillium cum eo fuisse et a multis visum esse constabat, in eum invadunt et hominem ante pedes Q.¹ Manli² qui tum erat triumvir constituunt. atque illic³ continuo nullo teste, nullo indice recentis⁴ malefici conscientia perterritus omnia, ut a me paulo ante dicta sunt, exponit Asuviumque a sese⁵ consilio Oppianici interfectum fatetur. extrahitur domo latitans Oppianicus a Manlio;

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1. There were many triumviri, but the triumviri capitales, which are meant here, were regular magistrates elected by the people, they succeeded to many of the functions of the quaestores parricidii, and in many points they resembled the magistracy of the Eleven at Athens . Their court appears to have been near the Maenian Column. Vide Smith, Dict. Ant. p, 1009, v. Triumvir.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro A. Cluentio 38

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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