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M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 87 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 158 (search)
What
man ever lived of whom such a thing was heard as has happened to you, that his
statues in his province, erected in the public places, and some of them even in the
holy temples, were thrown down by force by the whole population? There have been
many guilty magistrates in Asia, many in
Africa, many in Spain, in Gaul, in Sardinia, many in
Sicily itself, but did we ever hear such
a thing as this of any of them? It is an unexampled thing, O judges, a sort of
prodigy amazing the Sicilians, and among all the Greeks. I would not have believed
that story about the statues, if I had not seen them myself uprooted and lying on
the ground; because it is a custom among all the Greeks to think that honours paid
to men by monuments of that sort, are, to some extent, consecrated, and under the
protectio
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 27 (search)
When in all the other countries liable to tribute, of Asia, of Macedonia, of
Spain, of Gaul, of Africa, of
Sicily, and in those parts of Italy also which are so liable; when in all these, I
say, the farmer in every case has a right to claim and a power to distrain, but not
to seize and take possession without the interference of the law, you established
regulations respecting the most virtuous and honest and honourable class of
men,—that is, respecting the cultivators of the soil,—which are
contrary to all other laws. Which is the most just, for the collector to have to
make his claim, or for the cultivator to have to recover what has been unlawfully
seized? for them to go to trial when things are in their original state, or when one
side is ruined? for him to be in possession of the property who has acquired
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 192 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 56 (search)
Alas for the age! alas for the degeneracy of our manners!
I will not mention anything of any great antiquity; there are many of you, O judges,
who knew Lucius Piso, the father of this Lucius Piso, who was praetor. When he was
praetor in Spain, in which province he was
slain, somehow or other, while he was practicing his exercises in arms, the golden
ring which he had was broken and crushed. As he wanted to get himself another ring,
he ordered a goldsmith to be summoned into the forum before his throne of office, at
Corduba, and openly weighed him out the
gold. He ordered the man to set up his bench in the forum, and to make him a ring in
the presence of every one. Perhaps in truth some may say that he was too exact, and
to this extent any one who chooses may blame him, but no further. Still such conduct
was a
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 57 (search)
It is
quite ridiculous for me to speak of Verres now, when I have just been speaking of
Piso the Thrifty; still, see what a difference there is between the men: that man,
while he was making some sideboards full of golden vessels, did not care what his
reputation was, not only in Sicily, but
also at Rome in the court of justice; the
other wished all Spain to know to half an
ounce how much gold it took to make a praetor's ring. Forsooth, as the one proved
his right to his name, so did the other to his surname.
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 72 (search)
As there was a great number wanting, that most infamous
man began to substitute, in the room of those of the pirates whom he had taken into
his own house, the Roman citizens whom he had previously thrown into prison; some of
whom he accused of having been soldiers of Sertorius, and said that they had been
driven on shore in Sicily, while flying
from Spain; others, who had been taken by
pirates, while they were engaged in commerce, or else sailing with some other
object, he accused of having been with the pirates of their own free will: and
therefore some Roman citizens, with their heads muffled up; that they might not be
recognised, were taken from prison to the fatal stake and to execution; others,
though they were recognised by many Roman citizens, and though all attempted to
defend them, were put to death. B
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 146 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 151 (search)
If, indeed,
(though I have no idea that that is possible,) you were to escape from these toils,
and effect your escape by any way or any method, you will then fall into that still
greater net, in which you must be caught and destroyed by me from the elevation in
which I stand. For even if I were to grant to him all that he urges in his defence,
yet that very defence must turn out not less injurious to him than my true
accusation.
For what does he urge in his defence? He says that he arrested men flying from
Spain, and put them to death. Who gave
you leave to do so? By what right did you do so? Who else did the same thing? How
was it lawful for you to do so?