The injured provincials would probably have none of great mark.

A man because he had been Quaestor was not, necessarily, one having influence, unless he belonged to some great family.

This was not the case with Cicero.

But he had made for himself such a character during his year of office that the Sicilians declared that, if they could trust themselves to any man at Rome, it would be to their former Quaestor.

It had been a part of his duty to see that the proper supply of corn was collected in the island and sent to Rome.