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As this was the case, I say first of all,
that the tenths of the territory of Leontini were sold for many more thousand
medimni than there were thousands of acres sown in
the district of Leontini. But if it was impossible for them to produce more than ten
medimni on an acre, and if it was fair that a
medimnus should be paid out of each acre liable to
the payment of tenths, when the land produced a tenfold crop, which however very
seldom happened, what was the calculation of the farmer if indeed it was the tenths
of the cultivator that were being sold, and no his whole property, when he bought
the tenths for many more medimni than there had been
acres sown? In the Lecutini district the list and return made of acres is not more
than thirty thousand.
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