Pro Cluentio ed by GG Ramsay Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Statius Albius Oppianicus. She was poisoned by the latter while pregnant. (11.) r. Auria (not named), daughter of A. Aurius Melinus (£) and Sassia. She was ma... more »rried to young Oppianicus. (67.) SECT. 5.—The Crimes of Oppianicus. We now return to Statius Albius Oppianicus (a), for the purpose of giving a history of his career as detailed by Cicero. A rapid summary, embracing most of the following particulars, will be found in Chapter 44. 1. He poisoned his wife Cluentia (,;), sister of the elder Cluentius, and therefore paternal aunt (amita) of the defendant. This is the first in order of his enumerated crimes. (10.) 2. He poisoned Auria (p), wife of his brother C. Oppianicus (y), she being, at the time, pregnant. (11.) 3. He poisoned his brother C. Oppianicus (y), and by the triple murder secured his inheritance. (11.) 4. On the death of his brother-in-law Numerius Magius (ji), he induced the widow to procure abortion in order that he might evade the will of Magius and secure the whole inheritance, of which he fraudulently gained possession. He then married the woman five months after her husband's death, but the union lasted for but a brief period. (12.) 5. He poisoned, through the instrumentality of an itinerating quack (pharmacopola circumforaneus), his mother-in- law Dinaea (i), the grandmother of young Oppianicus (6), who had made the boy her heir. After her death, he obtained possession of the will, made many erasures, and then, fearing detection, transcribed it on new tablets and attached forged attestations. (7, 14.) 6. He contrived the murder of M. Aurius (k), son of Dinaea, his own brother-in-law, at the very time when he was about to be restored to his friends, after having long pined in slavery and been accounted dead. The object herewas to secu...« less