There is in that farm a field of two hundred acres, which is called the Popilian field, O
 judges, which had always belonged to Marcus Tullius, and which even his father had possessed. That new neighbour of his, full of wicked hope, and the more confident because Marcus
 Tullius was away, began to wish for this field, as it appeared to him to lie very
 conveniently for him, and to be a convenient addition to his own farm. And at first, because
 he repented of the whole business and of his purchase, he advertised the farm for sale. But he
 had had a partner in the purchase, Cnaeus Acerronius a most excellent man. He was at
 Rome , when on a sudden messengers came to Marcus
 Tullius from his villa, to say that Publius Fabius had advertised that neighbouring farm of
 his for sale, offering a much larger quantity of land than he and Cnaeus Acerronius had
 lately purchased.