A man, "Dives equom, dives pictai vestis et auri." Verres heard, of course.

He had by this time taken some Sicilian dogs into his service, men of Syracuse, and had learned from them that there was a clause in the will of the elder Heraclius that certain statues should be put up in the gymnasium of the city.

They undertake to bring forward servants of the gymnasium who should say that the statues were never properly erected.

Cicero tells us how Verres went to work, now in this court, now in that, breaking all the laws as to Sicilian jurisdiction, but still proceeding under the pretence of law, till he got everything out of the wretch--not only all the legacies from Heraclius, but every shilling, and every article left to the man by his father.

There is a pretence of giving some of the money to the town of Syracuse; but for himself he takes all the valuables, the Corinthian vases, the purple hangings, what slaves he chooses.