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A Friend of Caesar

CHAPTER IV
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Something about that Drusus of Praeneste, if I recollect.
What's the story ?" Lucius settled down on his elbow, readjusted the cushions on the banqueting couch, and then began, interrupted by many a hiccough because of his potations.
"It is quite a story, but I won't bore you with details.

It has quite as much to do with Cornelia, Lentulus Crus's pretty niece, as with Drusus himself.

Here it is in short.

Sextus Drusus and Caius Lentulus were such good friends that, as you know, they betrothed their son and daughter when the latter were mere children.

To make the compact doubly strong, Sextus Drusus inserted in his will a clause like this: 'Let my son Quintus enjoy the use of my estate and its income, until he become twenty-five and cease to be under the care of Flaccus his _tutor_.[58] If he die before that time, let his property go to Cornelia, the daughter of Caius Lentulus, except;' and here Sextus left a small legacy for his own young daughter, Livia.


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