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He is selling all the possessions in Italy, in
regular order. Forsooth, he is very busy in that occupation. For does not omit one. He goes
through the whole of Sicily in the account-books of
the censors. He does not omit one single house, or one single field. You have heard an
auction of the property of the Roman people given notice of by tribune of the people, and
fixed for the month of January and I suppose you do not doubt, that they who procured these
things by their arms and their valour, did not sell the for the sake of the treasury, on
purpose that we might have something to sell for the sake of bribery.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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