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And so when Philinus of Herbita, a
man eloquent and prudent, and noble in his own city, spoke in public of the distress
of the cultivators, and of their flight, and of the scanty numbers that were left
behind, you remarked, O judges, the groans of the Roman people, a great crowd of
whom has always been present at this cause. And concerning the scanty number of the
cultivators I will speak at another time.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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