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Here the praetor of the Roman people, the guardian and
defender of the province, lived for sixty days of the summer in such a style that he
had banquets of women every day, while no man was admitted except himself and his
youthful son. Although, indeed, I might have made no exception, but might have said
that there was no man there at all, as there were only these two. Sometimes also his
freedman Timarchides was admitted. But the women were all wives of citizens, of
noble birth, except one the daughter of an actor named Isidorus, whom he, out of
love, had seduced away from a Rhodian flute player. There was a woman called Pippa,
the wife of Aeschrio the Syracusan, concerning which woman many verses, which were
made on Verres's fondness for her, are quoted over all Sicily.
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