This was something under L2000.

But Verres repudiated the arrangement with scorn.

He could do much better than that with such a temple and such a minor.

He puts the repairs up to auction; and refusing a bid from the trustees themselves--the very persons who are the most interested in getting the work done, if there were work to do--has it knocked down to himself for five hundred and sixty thousand sesterces, or about L5000.[113] Then we are told how he had the pretended work done by the putting up of a rough crane.

No real work is done, no new stones are brought, no money is spent.