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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 7, chapter 128 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Verres (ed. C. D. Yonge), section 90 (search)
The people of Petra,
though their tenths had been sold at a high price, were, very much against their
will, compelled to give thirty-seven thousand sesterces
to Publius Naevius Turpio, a most infamous man, who was convicted of assault while
Sacerdos was praetor. Did you sell the tenths so carelessly, that, when a medimnus cost fifteen sesterces,
and when the tenths were sold for three thousand medimni, that is, for forty-five thousand sesterces, still three thousand sesterces
could be given to the farmer as a compliment? “Oh, but I sold the tenths
of that district at a high price” he boasts, forsooth, not that a
compliment was given to Turpio, but that money was taken from the Petrans.