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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 137 (search)
Therefore when at
Syracuse I was chiefly with Roman
citizens; I copied out their papers; I inquired into their injuries. As I was a long
time occupied by that business, in order to rest a little and to give my mind a
respite from care, I returned to those fine documents of Carpinatius; in which, in
company with some of the most honourable knights of the body of Roman settlers, I
unraveled the case but I expected
no aid at all, either publicly or privately, from the Syracusans, nor had I any idea
of asking for any. While I was doing this, on a sudden Heraclius came to me, who was
in office at Syracuse, a man of high
birth, who had been priest of Jupiter,
which is the highest honour among the Syracusans; he requests of me and of my
brother, if we have no objection, to go to their senate; that the
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 142 (search)
It is a custom at Syracuse, that, if
a motion on any subject is brought before the senate, whoever wishes, gives his
opinion on it. No one is asked by name for his sentiments; nevertheless, those are
accustomed to speak first of their own accord, and naturally, according as they are
superior in honour or in age; and that precedence is yielded to them by the rest;
but, if at any time all are silent, then they are compelled to speak by lot. This
was the custom when the motion was made respecting the panegyric of Verres. On which
subject at first great numbers speak, in order to delay coming to any vote, and
interpose this objection, that formerly, when they had heard that there was a
prosecution instituted against Sextus Peducaeus, who had deserved admirably well of
that city and of the whole province, and when, in
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 144 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 148 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 151 (search)
You are welcome, then, to
that panegyric of the Mamertines. As for the city of Syracuse, we see that that feels towards you as
it has been treated by you; and among them that infamous Verrean festival,
instituted by you, has been abolished. In truth, it was a most unseemly thing for
honours such as belong to the gods to be paid to the man who had carried off the
images of the gods. In truth, that conduct of the Syracusans would be deservedly
reproached, If, when they had struck a most celebrated and solemn day of festival
games out of their annals, because on that day Syracuse was said to have been taken by Marcellus, they should,
notwithstanding, celebrate a day of festival in the name of Verres; though he had
plundered the Syracusans of all which that day of disaster had left them. But
observe the shamelessness and arrogance
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 26 (search)
In the first place, see how easy and pleasant to himself Verres
by his own ingenuity and wisdom made the labour of marches, which is a labour of the
greatest importance in all military affairs, and most especially necessary in
Sicily. First, in the winter season he
devises for himself this admirable remedy against the severity of the cold and the
violence of storms and floods; he selected the city of Syracuse, the situation of which and the nature
of its soil and atmosphere are said to be such that there never yet was a day of
such violent and turbulent storms, that men could not see the sun at some time or
other in the day. Here that gallant general was quartered in the winter months, so
securely that it was not easy to see him, I will not say out of the house, but even
out of bed. So the shortness of the day was consumed in
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 29 (search)
But when the middle of summer began to be felt, the time that all the praetors in
Sicily have been accustomed to devote to
their journeys, because they think that the best time for travelling over the
province where the corn is on the threshing-floor, because at that time all the
members of a household are collected together, and the number of a person's slaves
is seen, and the work that is done is most easily observed; the abundance of the
harvest invites travel and the season of the year is no obstacle to it; then, I say,
when all other praetors are used to travel about, that general of a new sort pitched
himself a permanent camp in the most beautiful spot in Syracuse.
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 30 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 63 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 64 (search)
The vessel
is brought to Syracuse. All expect
that the pirates will be punished. He, as if it was not a case of pirates being
taken, but of a booty being brought to him, considers all the prisoners who were old
or ugly as enemies; those who had any beauty, or youth, or skill in anything, he
takes away: some he distributed among his clerks, his retinue, and his son; six
skillful musicians he sends to Rome as a
present to some friend of his. All that night he spent in unloading the ship. No one
sees the captain of the pirate vessel, who ought to have been executed. And to this
very day every one believes, (how much truth there is in the belief, you also may be
able to conjecture,) that Verres secretly took money of the pirates for the release
of the captain of the pirates.