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	VERRES - LoveToKnow Article on VERRES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Verres entrusted his defence to the most eminent of Roman advocates, Q. Hortensius, and he had the sympathy and support of several of the leading Roman nobles.
		Verres vainly tried to get the trial postponed till 69 when his friend Metellus would be the presiding judge, but in August Cicero opened the case.
		Verres may not have been quite so fl as he is painted by Cicero, on whose speeches we depend entirely for our knowledge of him, but there can.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VE/VERRES.htm (477 words)

	Verres -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Verres returned to Rome in (The cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven) 70, and in the same year, at the request of the Sicilians, (A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)) Cicero prosecuted him.
		Verres entrusted his defence to the most eminent of Roman advocates, (Click link for more info and facts about Quintus Hortensius) Quintus Hortensius, and he had the sympathy and support of several of the leading Roman nobles.
		Verres vainly tried to get the trial postponed until 69 when his friend Metellus would be the presiding judge, but in August (A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC)) Cicero opened the case.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/verres.htm (729 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1240 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		If the elder Verres were originally a freedman or a kinsman of Sulla, and raised l>y him to senatorian rank, he would take in the one case or he would bear in the other the gentile name of Cornelius.
		To depict Verres in Cicero's colours would be to draw an anomalous monster, and to transcribe the greater portion of the impeachment.
		Individually Verres was a very ordinary person, with brutal instincts, manners, and associates, conspicuous in a demoralized age, and in an incurably corrupt class of men, — the provincial governors under the commonwealth,—for his licentiousness, rapacity, and cruelty.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3574.html (1030 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1241 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It is not clear, indeed, whether Cicero believed him to possess a genuine relish for the beautiful, or whether he considered the legate's appropriations as a mere brutal lust of pillage, and a means of purchasing the support of the oligarchy at Rome.
		In this transaction, Verres was not so deeply involved as others of his party ; but neither was he exempt from the ignominy attached to the verdict, since he declared that the list of the judices had been tampered with, and their signatures forged, himself having previously subscribed the list, and sanctioned the verdict officially.
		Verres and his predecessor Sacerdos came to the government of that province at a critical period.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3575.html (940 words)

	I. The First Oration Against Verres by Cicero. Rome (218 B.C.-84 A.D.). Vol. II. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He sees Verres in the crowd by the arch of Fabius; 2 he speaks to the man, and with a loud voice congratulates him on his victory.
		For they said that Verres said, that you had not been made consul by destiny, as the rest of your family had been, but by his assistance.
		Verres, as governor of Sicily, had plundered that island of its art treasures and other property.
	www.bartleby.com /268/2/9.html (2928 words)

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		Verres' background and future after the trial were highly undocumented at the time, therefore little is known about him.
		If Verres did indeed show up, Cicero was intending to boast about how he himself would have received less recognition had he not been able to finish his case.
		However, Verres and his attorney, Hortensius, lost, not by default, but because of the seriousness of the genocide as well as the extortion of the public's funds.
	www.joeykatzen.com /~jkatzen/writing/cicero.html (1410 words)

	Prosecution of Verres by Cicero
		He even pretends sometimes not to be too well acquainted with the names of the most celebrated statuaries; he often repeats, and with a kind of affectation, that he knows very little of painting or sculpture; and rather prides himself, as one may say, on his ignorance.
		Hortensius endeavored to defend Verres from the charge of having stolen these statues, etc., of which he admits that he had become the possessor, by contending that he had bought them.
		But it was contrary to the laws for a magistrate to purchase any such articles in his province; and Cicero shows also that the prices alleged to have been given are so wholly disproportionate to their value that it is ridiculous to assert that the things had been purchased and not taken by force.
	www.4literature.net /Cicero/Prosecution_of_Verres (933 words)

	Endometriosis
		The primary concern of the surgeon when entering these tools is the possibility of inadvertent laceration of a major blood vessel that may not be recognized immediately since the tools are entered blindly into the abdomen.
		If the Verres needle is placed directly into a major vessel and this is not recognized then insufflation of the vessel with CO2 gas may result in a massive pulmonary (gas) embolism and cardiovascular compromise or collapse.
		Bladder perforation with a Verres needle or the midline lower abdominal trocar is possible.
	www.ericdaiter.com /hyst_ecto/hyst9.html (1251 words)

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		During their term of office, the reforms of Sulla were reversed: the tribunate was restored, as was the censorship to determine the official roll of the senate, and control over the law courts reverted to the equestrians (it was shared 1/3 senators, 1/3 equites, 1/3 tribuni aerarii who sided with the equites).
		Verres tried to delay the trial until 69 when the consuls (Hortensius and Q. Metellus) and extortion court praetor (M. Metellus) would be favorable.
		Verres fled to Marseilles with his fortune, and Cicero published an imaginary speech for the second actio (which never took place) in five books, detailing the art objects of Sicily and their plunder by Verres.
	personal.ecu.edu /stevensj/latn3001/ch6.doc (3563 words)

	A Corrupt Roman Governor Is Convicted of Extortion
		The courtroom drama in which Verres was found guilty reveals one of the deepest flaws of the Roman Republic: the unprincipled exploitation of lands under Roman control.
		The prosecution of Verres marks the beginning of Cicero's illustrious career as one of the most active politicians and certainly the greatest orator of the Republic.
		I accuse Gaius Verres of committing acts of lechery and brutality against the citizens and allies of Rome, and many crimes against God and man. I claim that he has illegally taken from Sicily sums amounting to forty million sesterces.
	wps.ablongman.com /long_levack_west_1/0,8723,1123586-,00.html (990 words)

	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this paper I argue that Cicero in his defense of Caelius was building on his prosecution of Verres 14 years before to turn the law courts into an arena for critiquing and shaping social behavior as part of his more general efforts to reform Roman civil society in order to prevent its collapse.
		Scholars have usually attributed Cicero's hyperbole and vehemence in the Verres prosecution solely to the threat that the criminal courts, in the hands of senatorial juries since the reforms of Sulla, would be returned to partial control by the equites if the senators would not convict one of their own so evidently guilty.
		In the trials of Verres and then more explicitly Caelius, Cicero is aiming his attacks at elite individuals who are using or becoming meretrices in a dangerous inversion of the social order, one that threatens the entire community.
	classics.lss.wisc.edu /prostitution/mccoy.html (891 words)

	Index of names: Ve - Zo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		75/19 ors, aediles and quaestors: Verres is elected to be praetor urbanus
		74/29 Verres intervenes to disinherit A.Trebonius, Q.Opimius, and M.Octav
		72/43 Verres extorts contributions of corn from the inhabitants of Herbit
	www.attalus.org /names/Ve.html (2569 words)

	5. Appropriation and Identity: the Use of Greek Artistic Display
		He is prosecuting a man named Verres, who had been serving as the Roman governor of the island of Sicily.
		According to Cicero, Verres headed up a brutal reign of terror on the island during his years as governor, filled with merciless abuse, assassinations, and corruption.
		Cicero's difficulty is made still more complicated by the fact that Verres was governing Sicily in particular, because the capital of Sicily was Syracuse, the very city Marcellus sacked 140 years earlier and brought much of Rome's most splendid art to the city.
	home.att.net /~b.b.major/identity.html (2241 words)

	Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for Europe & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a stark, primitive place, built by the lord of the town, Ibelto di Challant, primarily as a military stronghold.
		The spartan soldiers' quarters give some idea of the conditions under which they lived; the Challants' quarters are barely more comfortable, although their fortress does go down in the history books as one of the first to install a toilet.
		If you need a room in Verrès for the night, there are some very basic ones in the Hotel Ghibli (tel 0125.929.316; up to L60,000/?30.99), at Viale Stazione 9, three minutes' walk from the train station.
	www.eztrip.com /dg_viewLocation_formId-78473.html (627 words)

	Cicero readings
		And likewise they all returned the statues and decorations to their owners, rather than carrying them off from the cities of our allies and friends, for the sake of a four-day break, on the pretext of being aediles, and then take them home to their private villas.
		Even among those who pay tax and tribute, nevertheless they leave these objects so that they can have in the very things which are pleasing to them and silly to us, delight and comfort in their servitude.
		Flush from his success in the case against Verres, among his many activities Cicero purchased and began refurbishing a villa in Tusculum, which would become a favorite place in ensuing years for Cicero to find respite from the turmoil of public life.
	home.att.net /~b.b.major/cicero.htm (2560 words)

	Caius Verres
		The son of an undistinguished senator, in 80 BC he became Quaestor in Asia to the consul Gnaeus Carbo, but, when civil war broke out in 83, Verres embezzled the military funds and joined the forces of Lucius Cornelius Dolabella.
		Under the command of Cornelius Dolabella the governor of Cilicia, the province was plundered by both, for which the governor Dolabella was prosecuted in 77 BC by Caesar as advocate, and was convicted mainly on the evidence of Verres, who thus secured a pardon for himself.
		Cicero called Caius Verres the drag-net of Sicily, because the name Verres has some resemblance to the word everriuclum, which signifies a drag-net.
	www.unrv.com /bio/caiusverres.php (441 words)

	Theory of Relativity (Clauses) \| LATIN 2 \| Winter 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The main clause is "Verres sees the woman" and the subordinate clause is "who is of great courage." The subordinate clasue is called a relative clause since it is introduced by a relative pronoun, in this case "who." The relative pronoun refers to the "woman," known as the antecedent to the relative pronoun.
		Both are pronouns and essentially have the same function -- they refer to the "woman." However the personal pronoun "she" is used in a separate main clause while the relative pronoun "who" appears in a subordinate clause.
		Furthermore, note that "Verres" is not the antecedent to "who." The word order makes this clear; if "Verres" were the antecedent, the sentence would be "Verres, who is of great courage, sees the woman."
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~bwolkow/winter03/latin2/relativity.html (978 words)

	LATIN 132 Homework p. 203-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		b) The citizens of Agrigentum said that Verres was not a good praetor (provincial governor).
		g) Verres sent slaves into temples, took gold away from citizens by force, favored friends even against the law, (and) embraced all (kinds of) crimes.
		i) Because Verres did not want to be charged, he ordered a certain friend to lie.
	www.willamette.edu /cla/classics/Faculty/LATIN132/LATIN132homework203-04.html (316 words)

	Poetry Daily Prose Feature: Michael Schmidt, The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets, Chapter XII, "Sappho of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The young Cicero, already an experienced advocate and familiar with Sicily, where he had been quaestor in 75 BC, was retained by the people of the island to press charges against Verres.
		This famous piece was among the works of art that Verres carted off, though he failed to carry off the plinth with its inscription, hence his theft was itself monumental and is known forever.
		Verres stole the statue, but an image of Sappho survives in Munich, on a crater, or wine-mixing bowl, attributed to the Brygos painter, from about 470 BC.
	www.poems.com /essaschm.htm (6150 words)

	M.Kool Transportation Products Inc. - Verres Industriels SA Page
		M.Kool Transportation Products Inc. is the Canadian representative of Verres Industriels SA of Switzerland.
		Verres has been producing high quality glass for the transportation industry since 1841.
		Verres also produces a range of high quality Electronic Temperature Regulators and Safety Switches under the trade names of
	www.marinewindow.com /verres.htm (127 words)

	Quintus Hortensius Hortalus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Roman orator and politician, Cicero's opponent in the Verres trial.
		He was leader of the bar until his clash with Cicero while defending the corrupt governor Verres (70) cost him his supremacy.
		He became consul in 69 and later collaborated harmoniously with Cicero in a number of trials.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9041136 (645 words)

	LATIN 132 Homework p. 282 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		(b) Verres brought it about that Servilius went to Lilybaeum.
		(e) Verres will bring it about that Roman citizens will be killed.
		Prefix each of these sentences with perficiam ut (following rules for primary sequence) and accidit ut (following rules for secondary sequence).
	www.willamette.edu /cla/classics/Faculty/LATIN132/LATIN132homework282.html (228 words)

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		they all drank and danced and sang on the shore, and when the husband of one of verres' paramours came bringing a fleet of boats with him, Verres, clever, if diabolical, gave him a job.
		Agrigentum (modern Agrigento) was a town in Sicily, but as far as I know, was never the name of the whole province of Sicily *Ciciero wrote "In C. Verrem"--"Against C. Verres"** in 70 BCE A full translation of Cicero's "In C. Verrum" is available online for anyone interested at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=cic.+ver.+init.
		If you read Cicero's text, you find that Cleomenes was none other than the "husband of one of Verres' paramours", and indeed Verres "gave him a job." So there you have it.
	www.themountaingoats.net /misc/cleomenes.html (315 words)

	Orangeside Triggerfish
		Fish Identification Photos: Orangeside Triggerfish, Sufflamen verres: The Orangeside Triggerfish is characterized by its shape and brownish-gray body with the males having a large distinct orange blotch that extends along their lower sides.
		In Mexico, the Orangeside Triggerfish is found in all waters south of Magdalena Bay on the Pacific, in the lower two-thirds of the Sea of Cortez, and around all of the oceanic islands.
		Can be caught off the bottom with live sardinas or cut bonito as bait, from either shore or far out at sea to depths up to 100 feet.
	www.mexfish.com /fish/osdtrig/osdtrig.htm (437 words)

	Bier's first spinal anesthetic and Veress's needle -- Maltby et al. 48 (9): 937 -- Canadian Journal of Anesthesia
		Janos Veress (not Verres or Verré) was a Hungarian physician
		for laparoscopic procedure was described as "Verres" needle.
		Verres or Veress needle is widely used for insufflation of carbon
	www.cja-jca.org /cgi/content/full/48/9/937 (604 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sicily
		In proportion as the political greatness of the Greek cities in the island increased, their artistic and literary fame diminished.
		The greed and cupidity of the praetors and other Roman officials (Verres, for instance) impoverished private individuals as well as the temples.
		The land fell into the hands of a few great landholders, who cultivated the rich soil by the labour of immense bands of slaves.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13772a.htm (5324 words)

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