venio nunc ad istius, quem ad modum ipse appellat,
studium, ut amici eius, morbum et insaniam, ut Siculi,
latrocinium; ego quo nomine appellem nescio; rem vobis
proponam, vos eam suo non nominis pondere penditote.
genus ipsum prius cognoscite, iudices; deinde fortasse non
magno opere1 quaeretis quo id nomine appellandum putetis.
nego in Sicilia tota, tam locupleti2, tam vetere provincia, tot
oppidis, tot familiis tam copiosis, ullum argenteum vas,
ullum Corinthium aut Deliacum fuisse, ullam3 gemmam aut
margaritam, quicquam ex auro aut ebore factum, signum
ullum aeneum, marmoreum, eburneum, nego ullam picturam
neque in tabula neque in textili4 quin conquisierit, inspexerit,
quod placitum sit abstulerit.
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1 magno opere R (v, §§107, 174; cf. iv, §17 tanto opere RV): magnopere SHp (Act. Pr. §23; i, §108)
2 locupleti RSHp: locuplete δ (§§29, 46 infra）
3 nego ullam p: nullam K (ut Serv. ad Verg. Aen. i. 655, et Lactantius Placidus ad Stat. Theb. vi. 63)
4 neque in textili G1L: neque textili RSH: neque textilem fuisse pδ
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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