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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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