[Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookLife of Cicero CHAPTER IV 23/52
Chrysogonus immediately saw to the selling of the goods, and from this Cicero implies that Chrysogonus and the two Tituses were in partnership. But it seems that when the fact of the death of old Roscius was known at Ameria--at which place he was an occasional resident himself, and the most conspicuous man in the place--the inhabitants, struck with horror, determined to send a deputation to Sulla.
Something of what was being done with their townsman's property was probably known, and there seems to have been a desire for justice.
Ten townsmen were chosen to go to Sulla, and to beg that he would personally look into the matter.
Here, again, we are very much in the dark, because this very Capito, to whom these farms were allotted as his share, was not only chosen to be one of the ten, but actually became their spokesman and their manager.
The great object was to keep Sulla himself in the dark, and this Capito managed to do by the aid of Chrysogonus.
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