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Why in the third year of your praetorship did you order the Calactans to carry the
tenths of their land, which they had been accustomed to pay at Calacta, to Marcus
Caesius the farmer of Amestratus, a thing which they had never done before you were
praetor, and which you yourself had never ordered in the two years preceding? Why
was Theomnastus the Syracusan sent by you into the district of Mutyca, where he so
harassed the cultivators, that for their second teethe they were unavoidably forced
to buy wheat, because they had actually none of their own, (a thing which I shall
prove happened also in the case of other cities.)
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