Oppius
8. OPPIUS stated by an ancient scholiast to have been praetor in Achaia, and to have been accused at the instigation of Verres. We may therefore place his praetorship about B. C. 80. (Schol. in Cic. Verr. p. 389; Pseudo-Ascon. in Cic. Verr. pp. 128, 171, ed. Orelli.)
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