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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 14 (search)
The whole of the thirty-five tribes will believe a most honourable and accomplished
man, Marcus Annius, who said, that when he was present, a Roman citizen perished by
the hand of the executioner. That most admirable man Lucius Flavius, a Roman knight,
will be listened to by the Roman people, who gave in evidence that his intimate
friend Herennius, a merchant from Africa,
though more than a hundred Roman citizens at Syracuse knew him, and defended him in tears, was put to death by the
executioner. Lucius Suetius, a man endowed with every accomplishment, speaks to them
with an honesty and authority and conscientious veracity which they must trust; and
he said on his oath before you that many Roman citizens had been most cruelly put to
death, with every circumstance of violence, in his stone-quarries. When I am
co
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 3 (search)
Therefore our ancestors made their first strides to dominion over Africa from this province. Nor would the mighty
power of Carthage so soon have fallen,
if Sicily had not been open to us, both as
a granary to supply us with corn, and as a harbour for our fleets.
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 29 (search)
when an
old follower of his, who reckoned himself one of his friends, could not prevail on
him to take him with him into Africa as his
prefect, and was much annoyed at it. “Do not marvel,” said he,
“that you do not obtain this from me, for I have been a long time begging
a man to whom I believe my reputation to be dear, to go with me as my prefect, and
as yet I cannot prevail upon him.” And in truth there is much more reason
to beg men to go with us as our officers into a province, if we wish to preserve our
safety and our honour, than to give men office as a favour to them; but as for you,
when you were inviting your friends into the province, as to a place for plunder,
and were robbing in company with them, and by means of them, and were presenting
them in the public assembly with golden rings, did it never o
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 158 (search)
What
man ever lived of whom such a thing was heard as has happened to you, that his
statues in his province, erected in the public places, and some of them even in the
holy temples, were thrown down by force by the whole population? There have been
many guilty magistrates in Asia, many in
Africa, many in Spain, in Gaul, in Sardinia, many in
Sicily itself, but did we ever hear such
a thing as this of any of them? It is an unexampled thing, O judges, a sort of
prodigy amazing the Sicilians, and among all the Greeks. I would not have believed
that story about the statues, if I had not seen them myself uprooted and lying on
the ground; because it is a custom among all the Greeks to think that honours paid
to men by monuments of that sort, are, to some extent, consecrated, and under the
protection
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 27 (search)
When in all the other countries liable to tribute, of Asia, of Macedonia, of
Spain, of Gaul, of Africa, of
Sicily, and in those parts of Italy also which are so liable; when in all these, I
say, the farmer in every case has a right to claim and a power to distrain, but not
to seize and take possession without the interference of the law, you established
regulations respecting the most virtuous and honest and honourable class of
men,—that is, respecting the cultivators of the soil,—which are
contrary to all other laws. Which is the most just, for the collector to have to
make his claim, or for the cultivator to have to recover what has been unlawfully
seized? for them to go to trial when things are in their original state, or when one
side is ruined? for him to be in possession of the property who has acquired
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 103 (search)