Personae non gratae

gaius canius, a roman knight, when he had tavelled to syracuse , used to say that he wanted to buy some little gardens , to which he could ammuse himself without people interupting. when this had become well known, a certain pythius who ran a bank in syracuse told him that he had gardens, not indeed for sail but which canius could use , if he wanted, as thought his own. And at the same time he invited thebman to his gardens for a meal. when that man had accepted, then pythius summond fishermen to himself and asked then to fsh infront ofthe estate on the next day and told them that he wanted them to do. canius came to the meal on time. before his eyes were a multitude of fishing boats; each according to his ability was bringing what he had caught, fish were being thrown down befor pythius' feet. then canius said ,"tell me, what is this pyhtius. why are there so many fish, so many fishing boats" and that man said "why is it surprising all the fish there are in syracuse are in this place." canius on fire with greed begged pythius to sell. at first that man refused. at the last however the greedy and rich man bought the estate for as much as pythius wanted. on the next day canius invited his friends; he himself arrives early, he sees no fishing boats. he asked his nearist neighbours whether it was a holiday for the fishermen. he replied, " there is no holiday asfar as i know, but no one is accustomed to fishing here, and so i was amazed yesterday at what had happened. canius was very angrey, but what was he to do?