[105]
That fellow,
being praetor elect, (whether being instigated by others, or being tempted by
circumstances, or whether, from the instinctive sagacity which he has in such
matters, he came of his own accord to this rascality, without any prompter, without
any informer, I know not; you only know the audacity and insanity of the man,)
appeals to Lucius Annius as the heir, (who indeed was appointed heir after the
daughter,) for I cannot be persuaded that Verres was appealed to by him; he says
that he can give him the inheritance by an edict; he instructs the man in what can
be done. To the one the property appeared desirable, the other thought that he could
sell it. Verres, although he is of singular audacity, still sent privately to the
young girl's mother; he preferred taking money for not issuing any new edict, to
interposing so shameful and inhuman a decree.
This text is part of:
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.