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Heraclius is the son of Hiero, a Syracusan; a man among the very first for nobility
of family, and, before Verres came as praetor, one of the most wealthy of the
Syracusans; now a very poor man, owing to no other calamity but the avarice and
injustice of that man. An inheritance of at least three millions of sesterces came to him by the will of his relation Heraclius;
the house was full of silver plate exquisitely carved, of abundance of embroidered
robes, and of most valuable slaves; things in which who is ignorant of the insane
cupidity of that man? The fact was a subject of common conversation, that a great
fortune had come to Heraclius that Heraclius would not only be rich, but that he
would be amply supplied with furniture, plate, robes and slaves.
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