There was a Cupid by Praxiteles, and a bronze Hercules by Myro, and two Can[oe]phrae by Polycletus.

These were treasures which all the world came to see, and which were open to be seen by all the world.

These Verres took away, and caused accounts to be forged in which it was made to appear that he had bought them for trifling sums.

It seems that some forced assent had been obtained from Heius as to the transaction.

Now there was a plan in vogue for making things pleasant for a Proconsul retiring from his government, in accordance with which a deputation would proceed from the province to Rome to declare how well and kindly the Proconsul had behaved in his government.