But I doubt whether there is any evidence as to this.
Cicero himself brings this accusation, but not in that direct manner which he would have used had he been able to prove it.

The Sicilians, at any rate, said that it was so.

As to the incompetency of the man, there was probably no doubt, and it might be quite as serviceable to have an incompetent as a dishonest accuser.

Caecilius himself had declared that no one could be so fit as himself for the work.

He knew Sicily well, having been born there.