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When he had come to Catina, a wealthy,
honourable, influential city, he ordered Dionysiarchus the proagorus, that is to
say, the chief magistrate, to be summoned before him; he openly orders him to take
care that all the silver plate which was in anybody's house at Catina, was collected together and brought to him.
Did you not hear Philarchus of Centuripa, a man of the highest position as to noble
birth, and virtue, and riches, say the same thing on his oath; namely, that Verres
had charged and commanded him to collect together, and order to be conveyed to him,
all the silver plate at Centuripa, by far the largest and wealthiest city in all
Sicily? In the same manner at Agyrium, all the Corinthian vessels there were
there, in accordance with his command, were transported to Syracuse by the agency of Apollodorus, whom you
have heard as a witness.
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