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Apronius is the farmer. I will speak a little of the people of Aetna; for they themselves at the former pleading
spoke in the name of their city. You recollect that Artemidorus of Aetna, the chief of that deputation, said, in the
name of his city, that Apronius had come to Aetna with the slaves of Venus; that he had summoned the magistrates
before him; that he had ordered a couch to be spread for him in the middle of the
forum; that he was accustomed every day to feast not only in public, but at the
public expense; that, when at those feasts the concert began to sound, and slaves
began to serve him with wine in large goblets, then he used to detain the
cultivators of the soil, and not only with injustice, but even with insolence, to
extort, from them whatever quantity of corn he had ordered them to supply.
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