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Life of Cicero

CHAPTER VI
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Then everything else is sold by auction.

How he divided the spoil with the Syracusans, and then quarrelled with them, and how he lied as to the share taken by himself, will all be found in Cicero's narrative.

Heraclius was of course ruined.

For the stories of Epicrates and Sopater I must refer the reader to the oration.

In that of Sopater there is the peculiarity that Verres managed to get paid by everybody all round.
The story of Sthenius is so interesting that I cannot pass it by.
Sthenius was a man of wealth and high standing, living at Therma in Sicily, with whom Verres often took up his abode; for, as governor, he travelled much about the island, always in pursuit of plunder.


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