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iubet agros emi. primum quaero quos agros
et quibus in locis? nolo suspensam et incertam plebem
Romanam obscura spe et caeca exspectatione pendere.
Albanus ager est, Setinus, Privernas, Fundanus, Vescinus,
Falernus, Literninus, Cumanus, Nucerinus. audio. ab alia
porta Capenas, Faliscus, Sabinus ager, Reatinus; ab alia
Venafranus, Allifanus, Trebulanus. habes tantam pecuniam
qua hosce omnis agros et ceteros horum similis non
modo emere verum etiam coacervare possis; cur eos non
definis neque nominas, ut saltem deliberare plebes Romana
possit quid intersit sua, quid expediat, quantum tibi in
emendis et in vendendis rebus committendum putet?
'definio,' inquit, 'Italiam.' satis certa regio. etenim
quantulum interest utrum in Massici radices, an in Silam
silvam deducamini?
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