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xxi.
[111] In Verrem, Actio Prima, xvi.
[112] In Verrem, Actio Prima, xvi.
[113] We are to understand that the purchaser at the auction having named the sum for which he would do the work, the estate of the minor, who was responsible for the condition of the temple, was saddled with that amount.
[114] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.ii., vii.
[115] Ibid., ix.
[116] Ibid., lib.ii., xiv.
[117] See Appendix C.
[118] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.ii., ca.

xxxvi.
[119] Ibid.

"Una nox intercesserat, quam iste Dorotheum sic diligebat, ut diceres, omnia inter eos esse communia."-- wife and all.

"Iste" always means Verres in these narratives.
[120] These were burning political questions of the moment.

It was as though an advocate of our days should desire some disgraced member of Parliament to go down to the House and assist the Government in protecting Turkey in Asia and invading Zululand.
[121] "Sit in ejus exercitu signifer." The "ejus" was Hortensius, the coming Consul, too whom Cicero intended to be considered as pointing.


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