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See now the wisdom
of our ancestors, who, when they had added Sicily, so valuable an assistant both in war and peace, to the
republic, were so careful to defend the Sicilians and to retain them in their
allegiance, that they not only imposed no new tax upon their lands, but did not even
alter the law of putting up for sale the contracts of the farmers of the tenths, or
the time or place of selling them; so that they were to put them up for sale at the
regular time of year, at the same place, in Sicily,—in short, in every respect as the law of Hiero
directed; they permitted them still to manage their own affairs, and were not
willing that their minds should be disturbed even by a new name to a law, much less
by an actual new law.
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