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So there was no
reason in the world for your taking him as a partner, except that he might learn with
your money what a harvest money can produce. Nevertheless, induced by acquaintance and
intimacy with the man, Quinctius, as I have said, entered into a partnership with him as
to those articles which were procured in Gaul.
He had considerable property in cattle, and a well-cultivated and productive farm.
Naevius is carried off from the halls of Licinius, 1 and from the gang of criers, into
Gaul and across the Alps; there is a great change in his situation, 2 none in his disposition; for he who from his boyhood had been
proposing to himself gain without any outlay, as soon as he spent anything himself and
brought it to the common stock, could not be content with a moderate profit.
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1 The Hall of Licinius, i.e. Licinius Crassus, was the celebrated one where he erected four columns of Hymettian marble, for the theatrical shows in his aedileship, and was one of the common resorts of auctioneers and criers.
2 Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. —;Hor. Epist. 1, ii. 27.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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