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A Friend of Caesar

CHAPTER IV
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You see Drusus can make no will until he is five-and-twenty.

But then comes another provision.

'If Cornelia shall marry any person save my son, my son shall at once be free to dispose of my estates.' So Cornelia is laid under a sort of obligation also to marry Quintus.

The whole aim of the will is to make it very hard for the young people to fail to wed as their fathers wished." [58] Commercial adviser required for young men under five-and-twenty.
"True," said Gabinius; "but how such an arrangement can affect you and your affairs, I really cannot understand." "That is so," continued Ahenobarbus, "but here is the other side of the matter.

Caius Lentulus was a firm friend of Sextus Drusus; he also was very close and dear to my father.


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