[30] For I see that there are many charges in which you are so implicated with Verres, that in accusing him, you would not dare to touch upon them.
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All Sicily complains that Caius Verres, when he had ordered corn to be brought into his granary for him, and when a bushel of wheat was two
sesterces, demanded of the farmers twelve
sesterces a bushel for wheat.
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It was a great crime, an immense sum, an impudent theft, an intolerable injustice. I must inevitably convict him of this charge; what will you do, O Caecilius?
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.
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