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You compelled the Imacharans after you had taken away all
their corn, after they had been impoverished by your incessant injuries, miserable
and ruined as they were, to pay tribute so as to give Apronius twenty thousand
sesterces. Read the decree about the tributes, and
the public testimony. [The Resolution of the Senate about the tribute to be paid, is
read. [The testimony of the Imacharans is read.] The people of Enna, though the tenths of the territory of
Enna had been sold for three thousand two
hundred medimni, were compelled to give Apronius
eighteen thousand modii of wheat, and three thousand
sesterces. I entreat you to remark what an enormous
quantity of corn is extorted from every district liable to the payment of tenths;
for my speech extends over every city which is so liable. And I am at present
engaged about this class of injuries, O judges, in which it is not a case of single
cultivators being stripped of all their property, but of compliments being exacted
from the public treasury of each city, for the farmers, in order that at last they
may depart from the lands and cities glutted and satiated with this immense heap of
gain.
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