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Now, O judges, it is worth your while to know how he was accustomed to find and
trace out all these things. There are two brothers, citizens of Cibyra, Tlepolemus and Hiero, one of whom, I
believe, was accustomed to model in wax, the other was a painter. I fancy these men,
as they had become suspected by their fellow-citizens of having plundered the temple
of Apollo at Cibyra, fearing a trial and
the punishment of the law, had fled from their homes. As they had known that Verres
was a great connoisseur of such works as theirs, at the time that he, as you learnt
from the witnesses, came to Cibyra with
fictitious bills of exchange, they, when flying from their homes as exiles, came to
him when he was in Asia. He has kept them
with him ever since that time; and in the robberies he committed, and in the booty
he acquired during his lieutenancy, he greatly availed himself of their assistance
and their advice.
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