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xviii.: "Quadringenties sestertium ex Sicilia contra leges abstulisse." In Smith's Dictionary of Grecian and Roman Antiquities we are told that a thousand sesterces is equal in our money to L8 17_s._ 1_d._ Of the estimated amount of this plunder we shall have to speak again.
[95] Pro Plancio, xxvi.
[96] Pro Plancio, xxvi.
[97] M.du Rozoir was a French critic, and was joined with M.Gueroult and M.de Guerle in translating and annotating the Orations of Cicero for M.Panckoucke's edition of the Latin classics.
[98] In Verrem Actio Secunda, lib.i., vii.
[99] Plutarch says that Caecilius was an emancipated slave, and a Jew, which could not have been true, as he was a Roman Senator.
[100] De Oratore, lib.ii., c.xlix.The feeling is beautifully expressed in the words put into the mouth of Antony in the discussion on the charms and attributes of eloquence: "Qui mihi in liberum loco more majorum esse deberet." [101] In Q.Caec.Divinatio, ca.

ii.
[102] Divinatio, ca.

iii.
[103] Ibid., ca.

vi.
[104] Ibid., ca.

viii.
[105] Divinatio, ca.


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