An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals, Volume 2

Cicero hesitated, but knowing his wife and seeing she was not to be dissuaded, told me to open the strongbox and fetch out the SiciliansБЂ™ evidence. He took her through it, piece by piece, and at the end of it, she regarded him with unfeigned dismay. БЂњBut that is not enough, Cicero! You have wagered everything on that? Do you really think a jury of senators will convict one of their own because he has rescued some important statues from provincial obscurity and brought them back to Rome-where they properly belong?БЂ«БЂњYou may be right, my dear,БЂ«conceded Cicero. БЂњThat is why I need to go to Sicily.БЂ«Terentia regarded her husband-arguably the greatest orator and the cleverest senator in Rome at that time-with the kind of look a matron might reserve for a child who has made a puddle on the drawing-room floor. She would have said something, I am sure, but she noticed I was still there and thought the better of it. Silently she rose and left the study. The following day, Philotimus sought me out and handed me a small money chest containing ten thousand in cash, with authorization to draw a further forty thousand as necessary ...»