[4. e.]
[Scaurus was a man so happily situated by fortune, that he could not only retain his own
possessions with the greatest ease, but that he was more likely to be able to acquire new]
ones, than to be forced to sell what he had. Come, then, while I defend Scaurus, O Triarius,
you defend the mother [of Bostar, whom I accuse of being implicated in this crime.]
*** [I have also refuted that assertion of yours] that you were afraid that
**** [unless, as Bostar had died intestate, he had managed the matter in such a way as if the inheritance belonged to himself, and as if this did not seem to him a sufficient reason for putting Bostar to death by poison.]
*** [I have also refuted that assertion of yours] that you were afraid that
**** [unless, as Bostar had died intestate, he had managed the matter in such a way as if the inheritance belonged to himself, and as if this did not seem to him a sufficient reason for putting Bostar to death by poison.]