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The vessel
is brought to Syracuse. All expect
that the pirates will be punished. He, as if it was not a case of pirates being
taken, but of a booty being brought to him, considers all the prisoners who were old
or ugly as enemies; those who had any beauty, or youth, or skill in anything, he
takes away: some he distributed among his clerks, his retinue, and his son; six
skillful musicians he sends to Rome as a
present to some friend of his. All that night he spent in unloading the ship. No one
sees the captain of the pirate vessel, who ought to have been executed. And to this
very day every one believes, (how much truth there is in the belief, you also may be
able to conjecture,) that Verres secretly took money of the pirates for the release
of the captain of the pirates.
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