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I can detail to you
the whole affair in regular order, and at last tell you what the result was, namely,
that Dio paid a million of sesterces, in order to
prevail in a cause of most undeniable justice, besides that Verres had his herds of
mares driven away, and all his plate and embroidered vestments carried off. But
neither while I was so relating these things, nor while you were denying them, would
our speeches be of any great importance. At what time then would the judge prick up
his ears and begin to strain his attention? When Dio himself came forward, and the
others who had at that time been engaged in Sicily on Dio's business, when, at the very time when Dio was
pleading his cause, he was proved to have borrowed money, to have galled in all that
was owing to him, to have sold farms; when the accounts of respectable men were
produced, when they who had supplied Dio with money said that they had heard at the
time that the money was taken on purpose to be given to Verres; when the friends,
and connections, and patrons of Dio, most honourable men, said that they had heard
the same thing.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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