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When a letter had been brought to Valentius his interpreter from Agrigentum, by chance Verres himself noticed the
impression on the seal; he was pleased with it, he asked where the letter came from;
he was told, from Agrigentum. He sent
letters to the men with whom he was accustomed to communicate, ordering that ring to
be brought to him as soon as possible. And accordingly, in compliance with his
letter, it was torn off the finger of a master of a family, a certain Lucius Titius,
a Roman citizen. But that covetousness of his is quite beyond belief. For as he
wished to provide three hundred couches beautifully covered, with all other
decorations for a banquet, for the different rooms which he has, not only at
Rome, but in his different villas, he
collected such a number, that there was no wealthy house in all Sicily where he did not set up an embroiderer's
shop.
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