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Therefore, while these were the established regulations of the province, Caius
Norbanus, a man neither very active nor very valiant, was at perfect ease, at the
very moment that all Italy was raging with
the servile war. For at that time Sicily
easily took care of itself, so that no war could possibly arise there. In truth, as
no two things are so closely united as the traders are with the Sicilians, by habit,
by interest, by reason, and by community of sentiment; and as the Sicilians have all
their affairs in such a state that it is most desirable for them to be at peace; and
as they are so attached to the sway of the Roman people that they would be very
sorry that its power should be diminished or altered; and as ever since the servile
war all such dangers as these have been provided for, both by the regulations of the
praetors, and by the discipline of the masters; there is no conceivable domestic
evil which can arise out of the province itself.
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