This son received no benefit from his father's death.

He had in fact been absolutely beggared by it--had lost the farm, the farming utensils, every slave in the place, all of which had belonged to his father, and not to himself.

They had been taken, and divided; taken by persons called "Sectores," informers or sequestrators, who took possession of and sold--or did not sell--confiscated goods.

Such men in this case had pounced down upon the goods of the murdered man at once and swallowed them all up, not leaving an acre or a slave to our Roscius.

Cicero tells us who divided the spoil among them.