Pro Cluentio, lvi.: "Locus, auctoritas, domi splendor,
apud exteras nationes nomen et gratia, toga praetexta,
sella curulis, insignia, fasces, exercitus, imperia,
provincia."

[94] Contra Verrem, Act. i., ca. xviii.: "Quadringenties
sestertium ex Sicilia contra leges abstulisse." In
Smith's Dictionary of Grecian and Roman Antiquities we
are told that a thousand sesterces is equal in our money
to L8 17_s._ 1_d._ Of the estimated amount of this plunder
we shall have to speak again.

[95] Pro Plancio, xxvi.

[96] Pro Plancio, xxvi.

[97] M. du Rozoir was a French critic, and was joined
with M. Gueroult and M. de Guerle in translating and
annotating the Orations of Cicero for M. Panckoucke's
edition of the Latin classics.

[98] In Verrem Actio Secunda, lib. i., vii.

[99] Plutarch says that Caecilius was an emancipated
slave, and a Jew, which could not have been true, as he
was a Roman Senator.

[100] De Oratore, lib. ii., c. xlix. The feeling is
beautifully expressed in the words put into the mouth of
Antony in the discussion on the charms and attributes of
eloquence: "Qui mihi in liberum loco more majorum esse
deberet."

[101] In Q. Caec. Divinatio, ca. ii.

[102] Divinatio, ca. iii.

[103] Ibid., ca. vi.

[104] Ibid., ca. viii.

[105] Divinatio, ca. ix.

[106] Ibid., ca. xi.

[107] Ibid.

[108] Ibid., ca. xii.

[109] Actio Secunda, lib. ii., xl. He is speaking of
Sthenius, and the illegality of certain proceedings on
the part of Verres against him. "If an accused man could
be condemned in the absence of the accuser, do you think
that I would have gone in a little boat from Vibo to
Velia, among all the dangers prepared for me by your
fugitive slaves and pirates, when I had to hurry at the
peril of my life, knowing that you would escape if I
were not present to the day?"

[110] Actio Secunda, l. xxi.

[111] In Verrem, Actio Prima, xvi.

[112] In Verrem, Actio Prima, xvi.

[113] We are to understand that the purchaser at the
auction having named the sum for which he would do the
work, the estate of the minor, who was responsible for
the condition of the temple, was saddled with that
amount.

[114] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. ii., vii.

[115] Ibid., ix.

[116] Ibid., lib. ii.