Just like Catiline, Oppianicus put his new love (and her fortune) over the lives of his children. One of his young sons was living with his mother Papia in Teanum, eighteen miles away, and only visited on public holidays (he was a bit of a deadbeat dad to this one), but Oppianicus wasn’t going to let that stop him. He asked Papia to let his son visit him and, as soon as the kid arrived, poisoned him.
