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[123] et Marcellus qui, si Syracusas cepisset, duo templa se Romae dedicaturum voverat, is id1 quod erat aedificaturus iis rebus ornare quas ceperat noluit: Verres qui non Honori neque virtuti, quem ad modum ille, sed Veneri et Cupidini vota deberet, is Minervae templum spoliare conatus est. ille deos deorum spoliis ornari2 noluit, hic ornamenta Minervae virginis in meretriciam domum transtulit. viginti et septem praeterea tabulas pulcherrime pictas ex eadem aede sustulit, in quibus erant imagines Siciliae regum ac tyrannorum, quae non solum pictorum artificio delectabant, sed etiam commemoratione hominum et cognitione formarum. ac videte quanto taetrior hic tyrannus Syracusanis3 fuerit quam quisquam superiorum, quia, cum4 illi tamen ornarint5 templa deorum immortalium, hic etiam illorum monumenta atque ornamenta sustulit.


1 is id RH: is S pr., deinde id add. s. l.: is om. pδ

2 ornari RH: ornare Spδ (cf. v, §68)

3 tyrannus Syracusanis RS: -is -is pk: Syrac. abesse voluit Jacoby

4 quia, cum scripsi (quod cum?): quia S: quā RH (unde umquam Orelli, edd.): cum pqk (Cl. Rev. xviii, p. 211)

5 ornarint (ornarent H)... sustulit RSH: ornarent... sustulerit pδ

M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.

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