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But you say you bought these things? What? did you forget to purchase of the same
Heius that Attalic 1 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 orders to send the tapestry to
Agrigentum to him. I asked whether he had
sent it. He replied as he must, that is, that he had been obedient to the praetor;
that he had sent it.—I asked whether it had arrived at Agrigentum; he said it had arrived.—I
asked in what condition it had returned; he said it had not returned
yet.—There was a laugh and a murmur from all the people.
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