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What more need I say? How great are these services, O judges, which perhaps we are
hardly aware we are receiving,—that we have many wealthy citizens, that
they have a province with which they are connected, faithful and productive to which
they may easily make excursions, where they may be welcome to engage in traffic;
citizens, some of whom she dismisses with gain and profit by supplying them with
merchandise, some she retains, as they take a fancy to turn farmers, or graziers, or
traders in her land, or even to pitch in it their habitations and their homes. And
this is no trifling advantage to the Roman people, that so vast a number of Roman
citizens should be detained so near home by such a respectable and profitable
business.
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