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But when the middle of summer began to be felt, the time that all the praetors in
Sicily have been accustomed to devote to
their journeys, because they think that the best time for travelling over the
province where the corn is on the threshing-floor, because at that time all the
members of a household are collected together, and the number of a person's slaves
is seen, and the work that is done is most easily observed; the abundance of the
harvest invites travel and the season of the year is no obstacle to it; then, I say,
when all other praetors are used to travel about, that general of a new sort pitched
himself a permanent camp in the most beautiful spot in Syracuse.
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