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Be it so. You reject the corn of Halesa, you have corn from
another tribe which you approve of. Buy that which pleases you; dismiss those whose
corn you have rejected. But from those whom you reject you exact such sum of money
as may be equivalent to the quantity of corn which you require of their city. Is
there any doubt what your object has been? I see from the public documents that the
people of Halesa gave you fifteen sesterces for every
medimnus—I will prove from the accounts of the wealthiest of the
cultivators, that at the same time no one in Sicily sold corn at a higher price.
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