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Browsing named entities in M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge). You can also browse the collection for Syracuse (Italy) or search for Syracuse (Italy) in all documents.
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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 107 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 117 (search)
You have often heard that the city of
Syracuse is the greatest of the
Greek cities, and the most beautiful of all. It is so, O judges, as it is said to
be; for it is so by its situation, which is strongly fortified, and which is on
every side by which you can approach it, whether by sea or land, very beautiful to
behold. And it has harbours almost enclosed within the walls, and in the sight of
the whole city, harbours which have different entrances, but which meet together,
and are connected at the other end. By their union a part of the town, which is
called the island, being separated from the rest by a narrow arm of the sea, is
again joined to and connected with the other by a bridge.
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 119 (search)
There is also another
city at Syracuse, the name of which is
Achradina, in which there is a very large forum, most beautiful porticoes, a highly
decorated town-hall, a most spacious senate-house, and a superb temple of Jupiter
Olympius; and the other districts of the city are joined together by one broad
unbroken street, and divided by many cross streets, and by private houses. There is
a third city, meaning “new city,”
or as we might say, Newtown, from the
Greek words *ne/a po/lis, as Tyche is the Greek
name of Fortune—*tu/xh compare with this
passage the description of Syracuse
given by Thucydides in his sixth and seventh books. in the highest part of
which there is a very large theatre, and, besides that there are two temples of
great beauty, one of Ceres, the other of<
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 121 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 122 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 123 (search)
Marcellus, who had vowed
that if he took Syracuse he would
erect two temples at Rome, was unwilling
to adorn the temple which he was going to build with these treasures which were his
by right of capture; Verres, who was bound by no vows to Honour or Virtue, as
Marcellus was, but only to Venus and to Cupid, attempted to plunder the temple of
Minerva. The one was unwilling to adorn gods in the spoil taken from gods, the other
transferred the decorations of the virgin Minerva to the house of a prostitute.
Besides this, he took away out of the same temple twenty-seven more pictures
beautifully painted; among which were likenesses of the kings and tyrants of
Sicily, which delighted one, not only by
the skill of the painter, but also by reminding us of the men, and by enabling us to
recognise their
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 124 (search)
But now what shall I say of the folding-doors of that temple? I am afraid that
those who have not seen these things may think that I am speaking too highly of, and
exaggerating everything, though no one ought to suspect that I should be so
inconsiderate as to be selling that so many men of the highest reputation,
especially when they are judges in this cause, who have been at Syracuse, and who have seen all these things
themselves, should be witnesses to my rashness and falsehood. I am able to prove
this distinctly, O judges, that no more magnificent doors, none more beautifully
wrought of gold and ivory, ever existed in an, temple. It is incredible how many
Greeks have left written accounts of the beauty of these doors: they, perhaps, may
admire and extol them too much; be it so, still it is more honourable for our
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 129 (search)
But how great do you suppose was the honour paid to Jupiter Imperator in his own
temple? You may collect it from this consideration, if you recollect how great was
the religious reverence attached to that statue of the same appearance and form
which Flaminius brought out of Macedonia,
and placed in the Capitol. In truth, there were said to be in the whole world three
statues of Jupiter Imperator, of the same class, all beautifully made: one was that
one from Macedonia, which we have seen in
the Capitol; a second was the one at the narrow straits, which are the mouth of the
Euxine Sea; the third was that which was
at Syracuse, till Verres came as
praetor. Flaminius removed the first from its habitation, but only to place it in
the Capitol, that is to say, in the house of Jupiter upon earth.
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 130 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 136 (search)
And to say nothing of other nations, judge of the Syracusans themselves. For when I
went to Syracuse, I originally
believed what I had heard at Rome from
that man's friends, that the city of Syracuse, on account of the inheritance of Heraclius, was no less
friendly to him than the city of the Mamertines, because of their participation in
all his booty and robberies. And at the same time I was afraid thSyracuse, on account of the inheritance of Heraclius, was no less
friendly to him than the city of the Mamertines, because of their participation in
all his booty and robberies. And at the same time I was afraid that, owing to the
influence of the high-born and beautiful women at whose will he had directed all the
measures of his praetorship for three years, and of the men to whom they were
married, I should be opposed not only by an excessive lenity, but even by a feeling
of liberality towards that man, if I were to seek for any evidence out of the public
records of the Syracusans.