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#51– Latin texts 24 – Cicero's story about fraud..#51 – Litterae Latinae 24 – Ciceronis fabula de malo dolo

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Today's recording is of a passage from the third book of de Officiis in

which Cicero tells a great story: The Roman eques Canius was looking to

purchase a lakeside property. As luck would have it, he meets Pythius, a

wealthy banker, who has just the thing, but Pythius is not selling…

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