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Was it not so? Men of the greatest wisdom, invested with the supreme authority, to
whom the senate had given the whole power of making laws respecting the letting out
the farming of the tributes, (and this power had been ratified by the people, while
only one Sicilian objected to it,) would not alter the name of the law of Hiero,
even when the measure would have been accompanied by an augmentation of the revenue;
but you, a man of no wisdom, of no authority, without any order from people or
senate, while all Sicily objected,
abrogated the whole law of Hiero, to the greatest injury and even destruction of the
revenue.
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