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Quaternos HS, quos mihi senatus decrevit
et ex aerario dedit, ego habebo et in cistam transferam de
fisco. quid postea? quid? pro1 singulis modiis, quos tibi
impero, tu mihi octonos HS dato. qua ratione? quid
quaeris rationem? non tantam rationem res habet quantam
utilitatem atque praedam. dic, dic2, inquit ille, planius.
senatus te voluit mihi nummos, me tibi frumentum dare:
tu eos nummos quos mihi senatus dare voluit ipse habebis3;
a me, cui singulos denarios a te dari4 oportuit, binos auferes et
huic praedae ac direptioni cellae nomen impones5?
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