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These are the men who were
meant when Quintus Tadius made an entry in his books that he had given things by
Verres's order to some Greek painters. They were already well known to, and had been
thoroughly tried by him, when he took them with him into Sicily. And when they arrived there, they scented
cut and tracked everything in so marvellous a manner, (you might have thought they
were bloodhounds,) that, wherever anything was they found it out by some means or
other. Some things they found out by threatening, some by promising; this by means
of slaves, that through freemen; one thing by a friend, another by an enemy.
Whatever pleased them was sure to be lost. They whose plate was demanded had nothing
else to hope, than that Tlepolemus and Hiero might not approve of it.
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