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For what else is so strange, not only in the matter but in the very form of the
petition? For other points which occur in the same petitions with reference to your
injuries, are indeed novel, but still they are not urged in a novel manner. The
Sicilians beg and entreat of the conscript fathers that our magistrates may
henceforth sell the tenths according to the law of Hiero. You were the first who had
sold them in a way contrary to that law.—That they may not put a money
value on the corn which is ordered for the public granary. This, too, is now
requested for the first time on account of your three denarii: 1 but that kind of petition is not unprecedented.—That a
charge be not taken against any one in his absence. This has arisen from the
misfortune of Sthenius, and your tyranny.—I will not enumerate the other
points. All the demands of the Sicilians are of such a nature that they look like
charges collected against you alone as a criminal. Still all these, though they
refer to new injuries, preserve the ordinary form of requests.
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