The man had been dead twenty years ago.

But "the dogs" which the Praetor kept were very sharp, and, distant as was the time, found out the clause.

Action is taken against the two sons, who indeed gain their case; but they gain it by a bribe so enormous that they are ruined men.

There was one Heraclius,[116] the son of Hiero, a nobleman of Syracuse, who received a legacy amounting to 3,000,000 sesterces--we will say L24,000--from a relative, also a Heraclius.

He had, too, a house full of handsome silver plate, silk and hangings, and valuable slaves.