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Here I ask, if sufficient protection is afforded to Hiempsal by the treaty
and if the Recentoric district is private property, what was use of excepting these lands by
name in the law? If that treaty itself has some obscurity in it, and if the Recentoric is
sometimes said to be public property, who do you suppose will believe that there have been
two interests found in the world, and only two, which he spared for nothing? Does there
appear to have been any coin in the world so carefully hidden that the architects of this law
have failed to scent it out? They are draining the provinces, the free cities, our allies,
our friends, and even the kings who are confederate with us. They are laying bands on the
revenue of the Roman people.
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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