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ea causa1 tripertita, iudices,
erit in accusatione; primum enim2 de decumano, deinde
de empto dicemus frumento, postremo de aestimato.
inter Siciliam ceterasque provincias, iudices, in
agrorum
vectigalium ratione3 hoc interest, quod ceteris aut impositum
vectigal est certum, quod stipendiarium dicitur, ut Hispanis
et plerisque Poenorum quasi victoriae praemium ac poena
belli, aut censoria locatio constituta est, ut Asiae lege Sempronia:
Siciliae civitates sic in amicitiam fidemque accepimus4
ut eodem iure essent quo fuissent, eadem condicione
populo Romano parerent qua suis antea5 paruissent.
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