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For when a
senator died of the old inhabitants, and when the remaining number of each class was
equal, it was necessary, according to the laws, that one of the original inhabitants
should be elected in order that there might be the larger number. And though this
was the case, still, not only some of the original inhabitants, but also some of the
new settlers, came to him to purchase the rank of senator. The result is, that
through bribery, one of the new men carries the day, and gets letters of appointment
from the praetor. The Agrigentines send deputies to him to inform him of their laws,
and to explain to him the invariable usage of past years, in order that he might be
aware that he had sold that rank to one with whom he had no right even to treat on
the subject. By whose speech, as he had already received the money, he was not in
the least influenced.
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