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After three years had elapsed, then, the long projected investigation into the death of her
husband was made; and what slaves were especially pointed at in the investigation ? I suppose
some new circumstances were alleged in the accusation; some new men were involved in the
suspicion. Strato and Nicostratus were those
mentioned. What? had not an ample investigation into their conduct taken place at Rome? Was it not so? The woman, now mad, not by disease, but
with wickedness, though she had conducted an investigation at Rome, though it had been resolved, in accordance with the opinion of Titus
Annius, Lucius Rutilius, Publius Saturius, and other most honourable men, that the
investigation had been carried far enough, still, three years afterwards she attempted to
institute an investigation into the conduct of the same men, allowing, I will not say no man,
(lest you should say by chance that some one of the inhabitants of the colony was present,)
but no respectable man to be present; and this investigation was in reality directed against
the life of her son.
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