Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 4.7 (CX)
“ For, of course, Terentius is within his rights! As to Metellus—de mortuis, etc. [1] —yet there has been no citizen die these many years past who----. Well, I am willing to warrant your getting the money: for what have you to fear, whomsoever he made his heir, unless it were Publius? But he has, in fact, made a respectable man his heir, though he was himself----! ”
