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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 176 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 39 (search)
On this he immediately sends men on whom he can rely to
Melita; he writes to certain inhabitants
of Melita to search out those vessels for
him; he desires Diodorus to give them letters to that relation of his—the
time appeared to him endless till he could see those pieces of plate. Diodorus, a
prudent and careful man, who wished to keep his own property, writes to his relation
to make answer to thoMelita to search out those vessels for
him; he desires Diodorus to give them letters to that relation of his—the
time appeared to him endless till he could see those pieces of plate. Diodorus, a
prudent and careful man, who wished to keep his own property, writes to his relation
to make answer to those men who came from Verres, that he had sent the cups to
Lilybaeum a few days before. In the
meantime he himself leaves the place. He preferred leaving his home, to staying in
it and losing that exquisitely wrought silver work. But when Verres heard of this,
he was so agitated that he seemed to every one to be raving, and to be beyond all
question mad. Because he could not steal the plate himself, he said that he
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 40 (search)
He orders Diodorus to be sought for over the whole province. He had by this time
struck his camp, packed up his baggage, and left Sicily. Verres, in order by some means or other to bring the man back
to the province, devises this plan, if it is to be called a plan, and not rather a
piece of madness. He sets up one of the men he calls his hounds, to say that he
wishes to institute a prosecution against Diodorus of Melita for a capital offence. At first all men wondered at such a
thing being imputed to Diodorus, a most quiet man, and as far removed as any man
from all suspicion, not only of crime, but of even the slightest irregularity. But
it soon became evident, that all this was done for the sake of his silver. Verres
does not hesitate to order the prosecution to be instituted; and that, I imagine,
was the first instance of his
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 103 (search)
There is an
island called Melita, O judges, separated
from Sicily by a sufficiently wide and
perilous navigation, in which there is a town of the same name, to which Verres
never went, though it was for three years a manufactory to him for weaving women's
garments. Not far from that town, on a promontory, is an ancient temple of Juno,
which was always considered so holy, that it was not only always kept inviolate and
sacred in those Punic wars, which in those regions were carried on almost wholly by
the naval forces, but even by the bands of pirates which ravage those seas.
Moreover, it has been handed down to us by tradition, that once, when the fleet of
King Masinissa was forced to put into these ports, the king's lieutenant took away
some ivory teeth of an incredible size out of the temple, and carried them i
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 184 (search)