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In the second year, when Apronius had
bought the tenths of wheat for twenty-five thousand modii, and when he himself had come to Herbita with his whole force and
his whole band of robbers, the people was compelled to give him in the name of the
city a present of twenty-six thousand modii of wheat,
and a further gift of two thousand sesterces. I am not
quite sure about this further gift, whether it was not given to Apronius himself as
wages for his trouble, and a reward for his impudence. But concerning such an
immense quantity of wheat, who can doubt that it came to that robber of corn,
Verres, just as the corn of Agyrium did?
But in the third year he adopted in this district the custom of sovereigns.
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