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He orders that lands be sold. First of all I ask,
What lands? in what situations? I do not wish the Roman people to be kept in suspense and
uncertainty with obscure hopes and ignorant expectation. There is the Alban, and the Setino, and the Privernate, and the Fundan, and
the Vescine, and the Falernian district; there is the district of Linternum, and Cuma, and Casinum. I hear. Going out at the other gate there is the Capenate, and
Faliscan, and Sabine territory; there are the lands
of Reati, and Venafrum, and Allifae, and Trebula. You have money enough to be able not
only to buy all these lands and others like them, but even to surround them with a ring
fence.
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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