In Verrem, Against Verres, Orationes Volume III. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, creator; Peterson, William, 1856-1921, editor
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quid?
Halicyenses, quorum incolae decumas dant, ipsi agros immunis habent, nonne huic eidem
Turpioni, cum decumae c med. venissent, HS xv dare coacti sunt? si id quod maxime
vis posses probare, haec ad decumanos lucra venisse, nihil te attigisse, tamen hae pecuniae
per vim atque iniuriam tuam captae et[*]et secl. Muell. (§71 supra): esset O
conciliatae tibi fraudi
ac damnationi esse deberent; cum vero hoc nemini persuadere possis, te tam amentem fuisse ut
Apronium et[*]et O: ac p rell.
Turpionem, servos homines, tuo liberumque tuorum periculo divites fieri velles, dubitaturum
quemquam existimas quin illis emissariis haec tibi omnis pecunia quaesita sit?
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Segestam item ad immunem civitatem Venerius Symmachus decumanus
immittitur. is ab isto litteras adfert, ut sibi contra omnia senatus consulta,
contra omnia iura[*]contra omnia iura om. Op (hic et sen. cons.), contraque legem Rupiliam extra forum vadimonium promittant
aratores. audite litteras quas ad Segestanos miserit. LITTERAE C. VERRIS.
hic Venerius quem ad modum aratores eluserit, ex una pactione hominis honesti
gratiosique cognoscite; in eodem enim[*]enim p rell.: om. O
genere sunt cetera.
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Diocles est Panhormitanus, Phimes cognomine, homo inlustris ac nobilis[*]nobilis cO: nobilis arator p rell. (om. Arabat). arabat is agrum conductum in Segestano; nam commercium
in eo agro nemini est; conductum habebat HS sex milibus. pro decuma[*]Pro decuma
om. cO
, cum pulsatus a Venerio esset, decidit[*]decidit
cO: dedit rell.
HS xvi et
medimnis[*]medimnis om. codd.
DCLIIII. id ex
tabulis ipsius[*]ipsius tabulis O
cognoscite. NOMEN DIOCLIS
PANHORMITANI. huic eidem Symmacho C. Annaeus Brocchus senator, homo eo splendore,
ea virtute, qua omnes existimatis, nummos praeter frumentum coactus est dare. Venerione servo
te praetore talis vir, senator populi Romani, quaestui fuit?
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hunc
ordinem si dignitate antecellere non existimabas, ne hoc quidem sciebas, iudicare?
antea cum equester ordo iudicaret, improbi et rapaces magistratus in provinciis
inserviebant publicanis; ornabant eos qui[*]qui cO: quicunque rell.
in operis erant; quemcumque equitem Romanum in provincia
viderant, beneficiis ac liberalitate prosequebantur; neque tantum illa res nocentibus proderat
quantum obfuit multis, cum aliquid contra utilitatem eius ordinis voluntatemque fecissent.
retinebatur hoc tum nescio quo modo quasi communi consilio ab illis diligenter,
ut, qui unum equitem Romanum contumelia dignum putasset, ab universo ordine malo dignus
iudicaretur:
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tu sic ordinem senatorium despexisti, sic ad
iniurias libidinesque[*]libidines iniuriasque O (§63 supra) tuas omnia coaequasti, sic habuisti statutum cum animo ac
deliberatum, omnis qui habitarent[*]habitarent p rell.: haberent
cO (fort. agerent: i, §149) in
Sicilia, aut qui Siciliam te praetore attigissent, iudices reicere ut illud non cogitares
tamen[*]cogitares tamen, Muell.: cogitares, tamen edd. (tandem?), ad eiusdem ordinis homines te iudices esse
venturum? in quibus si ex ipsorum domestico incommodo nullus dolor insideret, tamen esset illa
cogitatio, in alterius iniuria sese[*]se O
despectos
dignitatemque ordinis contemptam et abiectam. quod mehercule, iudices, mihi non
mediocriter ferendum videtur; habet enim quendam aculeum contumelia, quem pati pudentes ac
viri boni difficillime possunt.
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