Marcellus had saved the lives of the Syracusans; Verres had made the Forum to run with their blood.

The harbor which had held its own against Marcellus, as we may read in our Livy, had been wilfully opened by Verres to Cilician pirates.

This Syracuse which had been so carefully preserved by its Roman conqueror, the most beautiful of all the Greek cities on the face of the earth--so beautiful that Marcellus had spared to it all its public ornaments--had been stripped bare by Verres.

There was the temple of Minerva from which he had taken all the pictures.

There were doors to this temple of such beauty that books had been written about them.