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Here are interpreters of treaties,
settlers of the terms of alliances, authorities as to religious obligations! Corn
was never bought in Sicily by public order,
without the Mamertines being ordered to furnish their just proportion, till that
fellow appointed this select and admirable bench of his, in order to get money from
them, and to act up to his invariable character. Therefore, that decree had just the
weight that the authority of that man ought to have, who sold a decree to those men
from whom it had been his duty to buy corn. For Lucius Metellus, the moment he
arrived as his successor, required corn of the Mamertines, according to the
regulations and appointment of Caius Sacerdos and Sextus Peducaeus.
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