Pro Cluentio, lvi.: "Locus, auctoritas, domi splendor, apud exteras nationes nomen et gratia, toga prætexta, 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 £8 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. Guéroult 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 Cæcilius 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. Cæc. 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., xiv. [117] See Appendix C. [118] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. ii., ca. xxxvi. [119] Ibid. "Una nox intercesserat, quam iste Dorotheum sic diligebat, ut diceres, omnia inter eos esse communia."--wife and all. "Iste" always means Verres in these narratives. [120] These were burning political questions of the moment. It was as though an advocate of our days should desire some disgraced member of Parliament to go down to the House and assist the Government in protecting Turkey in Asia and invading Zululand.