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Behold now, here is the case which I
have just mentioned. The woman abounds in audacity, she is deficient in contrivance and in
ability. For many documents of what came out in the investigation are preserved, which have
been read to you, and made public, those very documents which he said were then sealed up; and
in all these documents there is not one letter about theft. It never once occurred to her to
write out the first speech of Strato about the
robbery, and after that, to add to it some expression about poisoning, which might seem not to
have been extracted by any interrogatory, but to have been wrung from him by pain. The
investigation into the robbery was superseded by the suspicion of the poisoning, which was a
previous subject for investigation, which this very woman herself had pointed out; who, after
she had come to the resolution (being compelled thereto by the opinion of her friends,) that
the examination had been pushed far enough, for three years afterwards loved that man
Strato above all the other slaves, and held him in
the greatest honour, and loaded him with all sorts of kindnesses. When, therefore, the
investigation into a robbery was going on, and that robbery too which he, beyond dispute, had
committed, did he then abstain from saying a word about that which was the subject of the
investigation, but at once say something about the poisoning?
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