An is non reddet qui domini patrimonium circumplexus quasi thesaurum draco, Pompei servus, libertus Caesaris, agri Lucani possessiones occupavit?
There is a former slave of Gnaeus Pompeius and freedman of Caesar's who has taken possession of lands in Lucania, coiled round his master's property like a dragon around a treasure: will he not give it back?
Cicero, Philippic 13.12 (pages 240-41 in the Loeb translation by Shackleton Bailey.)