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I have reserved the territories of two cities, O judges, to speak of last, the best
and noblest of all, the territory of Aetna
and that of Leontini: I will say nothing of the gains made out of these districts in
his three years; I will select one year in order that I more easily may be able to
explain what I have settled to mention. I will take the third year, because it is
both the most recent, and because it has been managed by him in such a way that,
since he knew that he was certainly going to depart, he evidently did not care if he
left behind him not one cultivator of the soil in all Sicily. We will speak of the tenths of the territory of Aetna and Leontini. Give heed, O judges, carefully.
The lands are fertile; it is the third year;
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