But this does not suit Verres.

The slave-markets of the Roman Empire are open, and there are men among the pirates whom it will suit him better to sell than to kill.

There are six musicians, "symphoniacos homines," whom he sends as a present to a friend at Rome.
But the people of Syracuse are very much in earnest.

They are too sharp to be put off with pretences, and they count the number of slaughtered pirates.

There are only some useless, weak, ugly old fellows beheaded from day to day; and being well aware how many men it must have taken to row and manage such a vessel, they demand that the full crew shall be brought to the block.