xciii.: "Animos hominum ad me dicendi novitate converteram." [86] It must be remembered that this advice was actually given when Cicero subsequently became a candidate for the Consulship, but it is mentioned here as showing the manner in which were sought the great offices of State.
[87] Cicero speaks of Sicily as divided into two provinces, "Quaestores utriusque provinciae." There was, however, but one Praetor or Proconsul.

But the island had been taken by the Romans at two different times.
Lilybaeum and the west was obtained from the Carthaginians at the end of the first Punic war, whereas, Syracuse was conquered by Marcellus and occupied during the second Punic war.
[88] Tacitus, Ann., lib.xi., ca.

xxii.: "Post, lege Sullae, viginti creati supplendo senatui, cui judicia tradiderat." [89] De Legibus, iii., xii.
[90] Pro P.Sexto, lxv.
[91] Pro Cluentio, lvi.
[92] Contra Verrem, Act.iv., ca.

xi.: "Ecquae civitas est, non modo in provinciis nostris, verum etiam in ultimis nationibus, aut tam potens, aut tam libera, aut etiam am immanis ac barbara; rex denique ecquis est, qui senatorem populi Romani tecto ac domo non invitet ?" [93] Contra Verrem, Act.i., ca.

xiii.: "Omnia non modo commemorabuntur, sed etiam, expositis certis rebus, agentur, quae inter decem annos, posteaquam judicia ad senatum translata sunt, in rebus judicandis nefarie flagitioseque facta sunt." Pro Cluentio, lvi.: "Locus, auctoritas, domi splendor, apud exteras nationes nomen et gratia, toga praetexta, sella curulis, insignia, fasces, exercitus, imperia, provincia." [94] Contra Verrem, Act.i., ca.