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And so that resolved that
the farming of the tenth should always be put up to auction according to the law of
Hiero, in order that the discharge of that office might be the more agreeable if,
though the supreme power was changed, still, not only the laws of that king who was
very dear to the Sicilians, but his name also remained in force among them. This law
the Sicilians always used before Verres was praetor. He first dared to root up and
alter the established usages of them all, their customs which had been handed down
to them from their ancestors, the conditions of their friendship with us, and the
rights secured to them by our alliance.
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