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He also puts up to auction the lands of the Corinthians,
rich and fertile lands; and those of the Cyrenaeans, which did belong to Apion; and the lands
in Spain near Carthagena; and those in Africa near the old Carthage itself—a place which Publius Africanus consecrated, not on
account of any religious feeling for the place itself and for its antiquity, but in
accordance with the advice of his counselors, in order that the place itself might bear
record of the disasters of that people which had contended with us for the empire of the
world. But Scipio was not as diligent as Rullus is; or else, perhaps, he could not find a
purchaser for that place. However, among these royal districts, taken in our ancient wars by
the consummate valour of our generals, he adds the royal lands of Mithridates, which were in
Paphlagonia, and in Pontus, and in Cappadocia, and orders
the decemvirs to sell them.
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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