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In the next place, why is that valuation established for
only one description of corn? If it is just and endurable, then Sicily owes the Roman people tenths; let it give
three denarii for each single modius of wheat; let it keep the corn itself. Money has been paid to
you, O Verres,—one sum with which you were to buy corn for the granary,
the other with which you were to buy corn from the cities to send to Rome. You keep at your own house the money which
has been given to you; and besides that, you receive a vast sum in your own name. Do
the same with respect to that corn which belongs to the Roman people; exact money
from the cities according to the same valuation, and give back what you have
received,—then the treasury of the Roman people will be better filled than
it ever has been.
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