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Others are of an allusive type: for example, Domitius Afer, in his defence of Cloatilla, whom Claudius had pardoned when she was accused of having buried her husband, who had been one of the rebels, addressed her sons in his peroration with the words: Nonetheless, it is your duty, boys, to give your mother burial. The point is uncertain. Possibly, as Gesner suggests, the sons were accusing their mother. Some, again,
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depend on the fact that they are transferred from one context to another Crispus, in his defence of Spatale, whose lover had made her his heir and then proceeded to die at the age of eighteen, remarked: What a marvellous fellow to gratify his passion thus! sibi indulsit would seen to mean his appointing S. his heir and then being kind enough to die so soon! But the point is uncertain.
