Is there any one
 of all these circumstances invented by me, O Decianus? —All the nobles know these facts—virtuous
 men are acquainted with them—our own citizens are acquainted with them—all the merchants of
 ordinary consequence are acquainted with them. Rise, Amyntas: demand back from Decianus, not
 your money, not your estates; let him even keep your mother-in-law for himself; but let him
 restore your wife, let him restore the daughter to her miserable father: for the limbs which he
 has weakened with stones, with sticks, with weapons, the hands which he has crushed, the fingers
 which he has broken, the sinews which he has cut through, those he cannot restore. The
 daughter,—restore the daughter, I say, O Decianus, to her unhappy father. Do you wonder that you could not get Flaccus to approve of this conduct? I
 should like to know who you did persuade to approve of it? You contrived fictitious purchases,
 you put up advertisements of estates in concert with some wretched women,—open frauds. According
 to the laws of the Greeks it was necessary to name a guardian to look after these matters. You
 named Polemocrates a hired slave and minister of your designs. Polemocrates was prosecuted by
 Dion for treachery and fraud on account of this very guardianship. What a crowd was there from
 all the neighbouring towns on every side! What was their indignation! How universal were their
 complaints! Polemocrates was convicted by every single vote; the sales were annulled, the
 advertisements were canceled. Do you restore the property? You bring to the men of Pergamus, and
 beg them to enter in their public registers, those beautiful advertisements and purchases of
 yours. They refuse, they reject them. And yet who were the men who did so? The men of Pergamus,
 your own panegyrists. For you appear to me to boast as much of the panegyric of the citizens of
 Pergamus, as if you had arrived at all the honours which had been attained by your ancestors.
 And you thought yourself in this respect better off than Laelius, that the city of Pergamus
 praised you. Is the city of Pergamus more honourable than that of Smyrna? Even the men of
 Pergamus themselves do not assert that.