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The king, in the most frequented place in Syracuse, in the forum,—in the forum
at Syracuse, I say, (that no man may
suppose I am bringing forward a charge about which there is any obscurity, or
imagining anything which rests on mere suspicion,) weeping, and calling gods and men
to witness, began to cry out that Caius Verres had taken from him a candelabrum made
of jewels, which he was about to send to the Capitol, and which he wished to be in
that most splendid temple as a memorial to the Roman people of his alliance with and
friendship for them. He said that he did not care about the other works made of gold
and jewels belonging to him which were in Verres's hands, but that it was a
miserable and scandalous thing for this to be taken from him. And that, although it
had long ago been consecrated in the minds and intentions of himself and his
brother, still, that he then, before that assembled body of Roman citizens, offered,
and gave, and dedicated, and consecrated it to the great and good Jupiter, and that he invoked Jupiter himself as a witness of his intention and of
his piety.
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