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Browsing named entities in M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for Quintius, Sextus Roscius, Quintus Roscius, against Quintus Caecilius, and against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge). You can also browse the collection for Sicily (Italy) or search for Sicily (Italy) in all documents.
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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 108 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 117 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 120 (search)
By what, then, can this be made evident? Chiefly by this fact, that the land of the
province of Sicily liable to the payment of
tenths is deserted through the avarice of that man. Nor does it happen only that
those who have remained on their lands are now cultivating a smaller number of
acres, but also very many rich men, farmers on a large scale, and skillful men, have
deserted large and productive farms, and abandoned their whole allotments. That may
be very easily ascertained from the public documents of the states; because
according to the law of Hiero the number of cultivators is every year entered in the
books by public authority before the magistrates. Read now how many cultivators of
the Leontine district there were when Verres took the government. Eighty-three. And
how many made returns in his third year?
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 121 (search)
O ye immortal gods! If you had driven away out of the whole of Sicily a hundred and seventy cultivators of the
soil, could you, with impartial judges, escape condemnation? When the one district
of Agyrium is less populous by a hundred
and seventy cultivators, will not you, O judges, form your conjectures of the state
of the whole province? And you will find nearly the same state of things in every
district liable to the payment of tenths, and that those to whom anything has been
left out of a large patrimony, have remained behind with a much smaller stock, and
cultivating a much smaller number of acres, because they were afraid, if they
departed, that they should lose all the rest of their fortunes; but as for those to
whom he had left nothing remaining which they could lose, they have fled not only
from their far
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 124 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 125 (search)
When Sicily was harassed in the
Carthaginian wars, and afterwards, in our fathers' and our own recollection, when
great bands of fugitive slaves twice occupied the province, still there was no
destruction of the cultivators of the soil; then, if the sowing was hindered, or the
crop lost, the yearly revenue was lost too, but the number of owners and cultivators
of the land remained undiminished. Then th s
Marcus Laevinus, or Publius Rupilius, or Marcus Aquillius in that province, had not
to collect the cultivators who were left. Did Verres and Apronius bring so much more
distress on the province of Sicily than
either Hasdrubal with his army of Carthaginians, or Athenio with his numerous bands
of runaway slaves, that in those times, as soon as the enemy was subdued, all the
land was ploughed, and the
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 126 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 129 (search)
And that you may not marvel that so great a multitude has fled, as you find, from
the public documents and from the returns of the cultivators, has fled, know that
his cruelty and wickedness towards the cultivators was so excessive, (it is an
incredible statement to make, O judges, but it is both a fact, and one that is
notorious over all Sicily,) that men, on
account of the insults and licentiousness of the collectors, actually killed
themselves. It is proved that Diocles of Centuripa, a wealthy man, hung himself the
very day that it was announced that Apronius had purchased the tenths. A man of high
birth, Archonidas of Elorum, said that Dyrrachinus, the first man of his city, slew
himself in the same way, when he heard that the collector had made a return, that,
according to Verres's edict, he owed him a sum th
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 137 (search)
In the name of the good faith of gods and men, who is it that I am accusing? in
whose case am I not desirous that my industry and diligence should be proved? What
is it that I sought to effect and obtain by speaking and meditating on this matter?
I have hold, I have hold I say, in the middle of the revenues of the Roman people,
in the very crops of the province of Sicily, of a thief, manifestly embezzling the whole revenue derived
from the corn, an immense sum: I have hold of him; so I say that he cannot deny it.
For what will he say? Security has been entered into for a prosecution against your
agent Apronius, in a matter in which all your fortunes are at stake—on the
charge of having been in the habit of saying that you were his partner in the
tenths. All men are waiting to see how anxious you will be about this, how you will
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 138 (search)
Oh, unexampled impudence! Does he demand to be acquitted at
Rome, who has decided in his own
province that it is impossible that he should be acquitted? who thinks that money
will have a greater influence over senators most carefully chosen, than fear will
over three judges? But Scandilius says that he will not say a word before a judge
like Artemidorus, and still he presses the matter on, and loads you with favourable
conditions, if you choose to avail yourself of them. If you decide that, in the
whole province of Sicily, no capable judge
or recuperator can be found, he requires of you to refer the matter to Rome; and on this you exclaim that the man is a
dishonest man, for demanding a trial in which your character is at stake to take
place in a place where he knows that you are unpopular.