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Concerning Capua they deliberated much and long. Public documents are
extant, O Romans; many resolutions of the senate are extant. Those wise men decided that, if
they took away from the Campanians their lands, their magistrates, their senate, and the
public council of that city, they would leave no image whatever of the republic; there would
be no reason whatever for their fearing Capua.
Therefore you will find this written in ancient records, that there should be a city which
might be able to supply the means for the cultivation of the Campanian district, that there
should be a place for collecting the crops in, and storing them, in order that the farmers,
when wearied with the cultivation of the lands, might avail themselves of the homes afforded
them by the city; and that on that account the buildings of the city were not destroyed.
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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