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You also took away at Lilybaeum whatever
silver vessels you chose from Marcus Caelius, a Roman knight, a most excellent young
man. You did not hesitate to take away the whole furniture, of Caius Cacurius, a
most active and accomplished man, and of the greatest influence in his city. You
took away, with the knowledge of every body, a very large and very beautiful table
of citron-wood from Quintus Lutatius Diodorus, who, owing to the kind exertion of
his interest by Quintus Catulus, was made a Roman citizen by Lucius Sulla. I do not
object to you that you stripped and plundered a most worthy imitator of yours in his
whole character, Apollonius, the son of Nico, a citizen of Drepanum, who is now called Aulus Clodius, of all
his exquisitely wrought silver plate;—I say nothing of that. For he does
not think that any injury has been done to him, because you came to his assistance
when he was a ruined man, with the rope round his neck, and shared with him the
property belonging to their father, of which he had plundered his wards at Drepanum.
I am even very glad if you took anything from him, and I say that nothing was ever
better done by you. But it certainly was not right that the statue of Apollo should
have been taken away from Lyso of Lilybaeum, I a most eminent man, with whom you had been staying as a
guest. But you will say that you bought it—I know that—for six
hundred sesterces. So I suppose: I know it, I say; I
will produce the accounts; and yet that ought not to have been done. Will you say
that the drinking vessels with emblems of Lilybaeum on them were, bought from Heius, the minor to whom
Marcellus is guardian, whom you had plundered of a large sum of money, or will you
confess that they were taken by force?
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