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And do you now read to me in
regular order, the catalogue of the property of the Roman people which is for sale according
to the written provisions of this law. A catalogue which I think, in truth, will be miserable
and grievous to the very crier himself. He is as prodigal a spendthrift with regard to the
property of the republic, as a private individual is with regard to his own estate, who sells
his woods, before he sells his vineyards. You hare gone all through Italy, now go on into Sicily. There is nothing in that province which your ancestors have left to you
as your own property, either in the towns, or in the fields, which he does not order to be
sold.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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