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When this
was reported to Caecilius, that most excellent and upright man, he ordered Agonis to be
summoned before him; he immediately orders a trial to ascertain “if it
appeared that she had said that she and all her property belonged to Venus.”
The recuperators 1 decide all that was necessary, and indeed there was no
doubt at all that she had said so. He sends men to take possession of the woman's
property. He adjudges her herself to be again a slave of Venus; then he sells her
property and confiscates the money. So while Agonis wishes to keep a few slaves under
the name and religious protection of Venus, she loses all her fortunes and her own
liberty by the wrong doing of that man. After that, Verres comes to Lilybaeum; he takes cognisance of the affair; he
disapproves of the act; he compels his quaestor to pay back and restore to its owner all
the money which he had confiscated, having been received for the property of Agonis.
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1 “In many cases a single judex was appointed, in others several were appointed, and they seem sometimes to have been called recuperatores, as opposed to the single judex.”—Smith, Dict. Ant. p. 529, v. Judex.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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