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3.
Gliscebat interim luxuria spe inani consumebanturque
veteres opes quasi oblatis quas multos per annos prodigeret.
quin et inde iam largiebatur; et divitiarum expectatio inter
causas paupertatis publicae erat. nam Bassus effosso agro
suo latisque circum arvis, dum hunc vel illum locum promissi specus adseverat, sequunturque non modo milites
sed populus agrestium efficiendo operi adsumptus, tandem
posita vaecordia, non falsa antea somnia sua seque tunc
primum elusum admirans, pudorem et metum morte voluntaria effugit. quidam vinctum ac mox dimissum tradidere
ademptis bonis in locum regiae gazae.
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