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Verres took each separate piece of plate into his hands, praised
it—admired it. The king was delighted that that banquet was tolerably
pleasant and agreeable to a praetor of the Roman people. After the banquet was over,
Verres thought of nothing else, as the facts themselves showed, than how he might
plunder and strip the king of everything before he departed from the province. He
sends to ask for the most exquisite of the vessels which he had seen at Antiochus's
lodgings. He said that he wished to show them to his engravers. The king, who did
not know the man, most willingly sent them, without any suspicion of his intention.
He sends also to borrow the jeweled ladle. He said that he wished to examine it more
attentively; that also is sent to him.
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