[128]
Behold, behold, O judges, the miserable and squalid condition of our allies.
Sthenius, the Thermitan, whom you see here, with this uncombed hair and mourning
robe, though his whole house has been stripped of everything, makes no mention of
your robberies, O Verres; he claims to recover his own safety from you, nothing
more. For you, by your lust and wickedness, have removed him entirely from his
country, in which he flourished as a leading man, illustrious for his many virtues
and distinguished services. This man Dexio, whom you see now present, demands of
you, not the public treasures of which you stripped Tyndaris, nor the wealth of which you robbed
him as a private individual, but, wretched that he is, he demands of you his most
virtuous, his most innocent, his only son. He does not want to carry back home a sum
of money obtained from you as damages, but he seeks out of your calamity some
consolation for the ashes and bones of his son. This other man here, the aged
Eubulida, has not, at the close of life, undertaken such fatigue and so long a
journey, to recover any of his property, but to see you condemned with the same eyes
that beheld the bleeding neck of his own son.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
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.