18. Study Questions Copy

He is in exile.

Campania in southern Italy (the area around Naples).

Someone who Cicero says was an intimate friend of Sassia.

‘A man of good health’, perhaps implying that Sassia was assessing him as a possible replacement for the ailing Oppianicus.

He fell off a horse and subsequently died.

That there was no foul play involved in his death, but if there were, it happened within his own household.