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What more? Is it possible
to pass over the case of Apollonius, the son of Diocles, a Panormitan, whose surname
is Geminus? Can anything be mentioned which is more notorious in the whole of
Sicily? anything which is more
scandalous? anything which is more fully proved? This man Verres, as soon as he came
to Panormus, ordered to be summoned
before him, and to be cited before his tribunal, in the presence of a great number
of the Roman settlers in that city. Men immediately began to talk; to wonder how it
was that Apollonius, a wealthy man, had so long remained free from his attacks.
“He has devised some plan; he has brought some charge against him; a rich
man is not summoned in a hurry by Verres without some object.” All are in
the greatest state of anxiety to see what is to happen, when on a sudden Apollonius
himself runs up, out of breath, with his young son; for his father, a very old man,
had been for some time confined to his bed.
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