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Is it so? Did this reason weigh with a
private individual and shall it not weigh with the Roman people to prevent their giving up
the district of Campania to private individuals for
nothing, at the request of Rullus? And the Roman people may say the very same thing about
this revenue, that he is said to have said about his farm. Asia for many years during the Mithridatic war produced you no revenue. There
was no revenue from the Spains in the time of Sertorius. Manius Aquilius even lent corn to
the Sicilian cities at the time of the Servile war. But from this tributary land no bad news
was ever heard. Other of our revenues are at times weighed down by the distresses of war; but
the sinews of war are even supplied to us by this tributary land.
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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