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There are public documents to prove that that Mercury was
transported to Messana at the expense of
the state. They state at what expense; and that a man named Poleas was ordered by
the public authority to superintend the business—what more would you have?
Where is he? He is close at hand, he is a witness, by the command of Sopater the
Proagorus.—Who is he? The man who was bound to the statue. What? where is
he? He is a witness—you have seen the man, and you have heard his
statement. Demetrius, the master of the gymnastic school, superintended the pulling
down of the statue, because he was appointed to manage that business; What? is it we
who say this? No, he is present himself; moreover, that Verres himself lately
promised at Rome, that he would restore
that statue to the deputies, if the evidence already given in the affair were
removed, and if security were given that the Tyndaritans would not give evidence
against him, has been stated before you by Zosippus and Hismenias, most noble men,
and the chief men of the city of Tyndaris.
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