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What will he
say—(and it is quite impossible for any one to argue against this, since it has
been already settled and decided by you, and since we have already voted it to be our
inheritance,)—what will he say to the kingdom of Bithynia? which has undoubtedly become the public property of the Roman people.
Is there any reason why the decemvirs should not sell all the lands, and cities, and military
stations and harbours, and in short all Bithynia?
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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