In this trial I think that the cause of the Sicilian nation,—that the cause of the
 whole Roman people, is undertaken by me; so that I have not to crush one worthless man
 alone, which is what the Sicilians have requested, but to extinguish and extirpate every
 sort of iniquity, which is what the Roman people has been long demanding. And how far I
 labour in this cause, or what I may be able to effect, I would rather leave to the
 expectations of others, than set forth in my own oration. But as for you, O Caecilius, what can you do? On what occasion, or in what affair, have
 you, I will not say given proof to others of your powers! but even made trial of
 yourself to yourself? Has it never occurred to you how important a business it is to
 uphold a public cause? to lay bare the whole life of another? and to bring it palpably
 before, not only the minds of the judges, but before the very eyes and sight of all men;
 to defend the safety of the allies, the interests of the provinces, the authority of the
 laws, and the dignity of the judgment-seat? 
 Judge by
 me, since this is the first opportunity of learning it that you have ever had, how many
 qualities must meet in that man who is the accuser of another: and if you recognise any
 one of these in yourself, I will, of my own accord, yield up to you that which you are
 desirous of. First of all, he must have a singular integrity and innocence. For there is
 nothing which is less tolerable than for him to demand an account of his life from
 another who cannot give an account of his own. Here I will not say any more of yourself.
 This one thing, I think, all may observe, that up to this time you had no opportunity
 of becoming known to any people except to the Sicilians; and that the Sicilians say
 this, that even though they are exasperated against the same man, whose enemy you say
 that you are, still, if you are the advocate, they will not appear on the trial. Why
 they refuse to, you will not hear from me. Allow these judges to suspect what it is
 inevitable that they must. The Sicilians, indeed, being a race of men over-acute, and
 too much inclined to suspiciousness, suspect that you do not wish to bring documents
 from Sicily against Verres; but, as both his
 praetorship and your quaestorship are recorded in the same documents, they suspect that
 you wish to remove The Latin is deportare and asportare , the former
 meaning to remove from one place to another, the latter to carry away; “but it seems
 by implication here, to carry them away with the intention of suppressing
 them.”—Long. them out of Sicily .