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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 27 (search)
But you say you bought these things? What? did you forget to purchase of the same
Heius that Attalic Attalus, king of Pergamus, had been the inventor of weaving gold
thread into tapestry work, and therefore tapestry with gold threads interwoven in
it was called by his name. tapestry, celebrated over the whole of
Sicily? You might have bought them in the
same way as you did the statues. For what did you do? Did you wish to spare the
account books? This escaped the notice of that stupid man; he thought that what he
stole from the wardrobe would be less notorious than what he had stolen from the
private chapel. But how did he get it? I cannot relate it more plainly than Heius
himself related it before you. When I asked, whether any other part of his property
had come to Verres, he answered that he had sent him
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 127 (search)
In our most
beautiful and highly decorated city what statue, or what painting is there, which
has not been taken and brought away from conquered enemies? But the villas of those
men are adorned and filled with numerous and most beautiful spoils of our most
faithful allies. Where do you think is the wealth of foreign nations, which they are
all now deprived of, when you see Athens, Pergamos, Cyzicus, Miletus, Chios, Samos, all Asia in short, and Achaia,
and Greece, and Sicily, now all contained in a few villas? But all
these things, as I was saying, your allies abandon and are indifferent to now. They
took care by their own services and loyalty not to be deprived of their property by
the public authority of the Roman people; though they were unable to resist the
covetousness of a few individuals, yet they could in some degree sa