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Very few cities of
Sicily were subdued in war by our
ancestors, and even in the case of those which were, though their land was made the
public domain of the Roman people, still it was afterwards restored to them. That
domain is regularly let out to farmers by the censors. There are two federate
cities, whose tenths are not put up to auction; the city of the Mamertines and
Taurominium. Besides these, there are five cities without any treaty, free and
enfranchised; Centuripa, Halesa, Segesta, Halicya, and Panormus. All the land of the other states of
Sicily is subject to the payment of
tenths; and was so, before the sovereignty of the Roman people, by the will and laws
of the Sicilians themselves.
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