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My father-in-law, says he, has some hitherto deserted and
distant fields. By my law he will be able to sell them at his own price. He holds them at
present by an uncertain title; in fact he has no right at all to them: they will be confirmed
to him by the best possible title. He has them as public property; I will make them private
property. Lastly, he shall possess, without having the slightest anxiety about them for the
future, those farms which be has procured (by the proscription of their former owners) to be
joined to the admirable and productive estate which be had in the district of Casinum, being contiguous to it before; so as to make all
the different farms into one uninterrupted estate as far as the eye can reach; and respecting
which at present he is not without apprehension.
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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