Latin Cicero In Verrem 2.1 Chapter 58 Translation

You will state that your statues and paintings, too, served to adorn the city and the forum of the Roman people

Dices tua quoque signa et tabulas pictas ornamento

urbi foroque populi Romani fuisse.

O yes, I remember! Together with the Roman people I saw the forum and the comitium decorated with adornment

Memini; vidi simul cum populo Romano forum comitiumque adornatum

that was spectacular to behold,

ad speciem magnifico ornatu,

but bitter and distressing to feeling and thought.

ad sensum cogitationemque acerbo et lugubri;

I saw how everything shone in the splendour of your thefts

vidi conlucere omnia furtis tuis,

the plunder of the provinces, the spoils of allies and friends.

praeda provinciarum, spoliis sociorum atque amicorum.

Indeed on this occasion, judges,

Quo quidem tempore, iudices,

this man received the greatest possible encouragement to carry out future misdeeds in like manner;

iste spem maximam reliquorum quoque peccatorum nactus est;

for he saw that those, who wished to be called masters of the courts,

vidit enim eos qui iudiciorum se dominos dici volebant

were in fact slaves to these desires.

harum cupiditatum esse servos.