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at quem ad modum est pervagatus!
radices palmarum agrestium, quas in nostris
navibus invenerant, iactabant1, ut omnes istius improbitatem
et2 calamitatem Siciliae possent cognoscere. Siculosne
milites, aratorumne liberos, quorum patres tantum labore
suo frumenti exarabant ut populo Romano totique Italiae
suppeditare possent, eosne in insula Cereris natos, ubi
primum fruges inventae esse dicuntur, eo cibo esse usos
a quo maiores eorum ceteros quoque frugibus inventis
removerunt! te praetore Siculi milites palmarum stirpibus,
piratae Siculo frumento alebantur!
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