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How severe all this
is, and how little, after all these deductions are made, can be left of clear profit
for the owners, I think you, from your own farming experience, can guess. Add, now,
to all this, the edicts, the regulations, the injuries of Verres,—add the
reign and the rapine of Apronius, and the slaves of Apronius, in the land subject to
the payment of tenths. Although I pass over all this; I am speaking of the granary.
Is it your intention that the Sicilians should give corn to our magistrates for
their granaries for nothing? What can be more scandalous, what can be more
iniquitous than that? And yet, know you that this would have seemed to the
cultivators a thing to be wished for, to be begged for, while that man was praetor.
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