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Significant is the introduction of the great navigator: Christophorus quidam Colonus, vir ligur. There was nothing more to know or say about the sailor of lowly origin and obscure beginnings, whose great achievement shed glory on his unconscious fatherland and changed the face of the world.
Then "one of his dogs" for he had boasted to his friend Ligur that he always went about with dogs to search out his game for him suggested that some of the columns were out of the perpendicular. Verres does not know what this means; but the dog explains.
Vane Ligur, frustraque animis elate superbis, Nequicquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes.
In the prologue to Dialogus de Morte, Opera, tom. i. p. 673, he gives a full account of this transaction. Of the boy himself he writes: "hospes ostendit mihi filium nomine Guglielmum, ætatis annorum duodecim, probum, scitulum, et parentibus obsequentem. Avus paternus nomine Gregorius adhuc vivebat, et erat Ligur: pater Laurentius, familia nobili Cataneorum." Opera, tom. i. p. 119.
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