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But what can there be like that in Sicily? Enna is a completely
inland town. Compel (that is the utmost stretch of your authority) the people of
Enna to deliver their corn at the
waterside; they will take it to Phintia, or to Halesa, or to Catina, places all very distant from one another,
the same day that you issue the order; though there is not even need of any carriage
at all; for all this profit of the valuation, O judges, arises from the variety in
the price of corn. For a magistrate in a province can manage this,—namely,
to receive it where it is dearest. And therefore that is the way valuations are
managed in Asia and in Spain, and in those provinces in which corn is not
everywhere the same price. But in Sicily
what difference did it make to any one in what place he delivered it? for he had not
to carry it; and wherever he was ordered to carry it, there he might buy the same
quantity of corn which he sold at home.
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