[111]
Therefore, though
that heading had been embellished by you with so many words, and with that mercenary
preamble, was any praetor found afterwards to draw up an edict in similar style? Not
only no one ever did publish such an edict, but no one was ever apprehensive even of
any one publishing such an edict. For after your praetorship many people made wills
in the same manner, and among them Annia did so lately. She, by the advice of many
of her relations, being a wealthy woman, because she was not included in the census,
by her will made her daughter her heiress. This, now, is great proof of men's
opinion of the singular wickedness of that fellow, that, though Verres had
established this of his own accord, yet no one was apprehensive that any one could
be found to adopt the rule which he had laid down. For you alone were found to be a
man who could not be satisfied with correcting the wills of the living, unless you
also rescinded those of the dead.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.