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But that storming of that most ancient and most noble
temple of the Samian Juno, how grievous was it to the Samians! how bitter to all
Asia! how notorious to all men! how
notorious to every one of you! And when ambassadors had come from Samos into Asia to Caius Nero, to complain of this attack on that temple, they
received for answer, that complaints of that sort, which concerned a lieutenant of
the Roman people, ought not to be brought before the praetor, but must be carried to
Rome. What pictures did he carry off
from thence; what statues! which I saw lately in his house, when I went thither for
the sake of sealing 1 it up.
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1 The custom was for the accuser to put a seal on the house and effects of the man whom he was preparing to prosecute, in order that no evidence of the theft to be imputed might be removed by the removal of the stolen goods.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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