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What did you think that these men would think of you then, when they saw that you
were no longer contending against your accuser, but against the quaestor and the
brokers? 1 On 2
which matter you heard Charidemus of Chios
give his evidence at the former pleadings, that he, when he was captain of a
trireme, and was attending Verres on his departure from Asia, was with him at Samos,
by command of Dolabella and that he then knew that the temple of Juno had been
plundered, and the town of Samos; that
afterwards he had been put on his trial before the Chians, his fellow citizens, on
the accusation of the Samians; and that he had been acquitted because he had made it
plain that the allegations of the Samians concerned Verres, and not him.
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1 The quaestores aerarii were sent to take possession in the name of the people of the effects of a man who was convicted; the sectores or brokers attended them to appraise the goods seized.
2 In some editions the passage from “Qua de re Charidemum,” to “Non ad se pertinere,” is transferred to the previous chapter, and inserted after “deferri opertere,” but there is not the least reason for this transposition, which is contrary to the authority of every manuscript.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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