In the second place, an accuser must be trustworthy and veracious. Even if I were to
 think that you were desirous of being so, I easily see that you are not able to be so.
 Nor do I speak of these things, which, if I were to mention, you would not be able to
 invalidate, namely that you, before you departed from Sicily , had become reconciled to Verres; that Potamo, your secretary and
 intimate friend, was retained by Verres in the province when you left it; that Marcus
 Caecilius, your brother, a most exemplary and accomplished young man, is not only not
 present here and does not stand by you while prosecuting your alleged injuries, but that
 he is with Verres, and is living on terms of the closest friendship and intimacy with
 him. These, and other things belonging to you, are many signs of a false accuser; but
 these I do not now avail myself of. I say this, that you, if you were to wish it ever so
 much, still cannot be a faithful accuser. For I see that there are many charges in which you are so implicated with Verres, that
 in accusing him, you would not dare to touch upon them. 
 
 All Sicily complains that Caius Verres, when he had ordered corn to be brought into
 his granary for him, and when a bushel of wheat was two sesterces , demanded of the farmers twelve sesterces a bushel for wheat. The praetor had the
 power to make an annual demand on the farmers for corn for be state, and the quaestor
 was to pay a fair market price for it; but in some cases the praetor allowed or
 compelled the farmer to pay a composition in money, instead of delivering corn, and
 Verres when the market price of wheat was only two sesterces a bushel compelled the farmers to pay twelve sesterces a bushel by way of composition It was a
 great crime, an immense sum, an impudent theft, an intolerable injustice. I must
 inevitably convict him of this charge; what will you do, O Caecilius? Will you pass over this serious accusation, or will you bring it forward? If you bring
 it forward, will you charge that as a crime against another, which you did yourself at
 the same time in the same province? Will you dare so to accuse another, that you cannot
 avoid at the same time condemning yourself? If you omit the charge, what sort of a
 prosecution will yours be, which from fear of danger to yourself, is afraid not only to
 create a suspicion of a most certain and enormous crime, but even to make the least
 mention of it? Corn was bought, on the authority of a decree of the senate, of the
 Sicilians while Verres was praetor;