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The people of Agrigentum have old laws
about appointing their senate, given them by Scipio, in which the same principles
are laid down, and this one besides,—as there are two classes of
Agrigentines, one of the old inhabitants, and the other of the
new,—settlers whom Titus Manlius, when praetor, had led from other towns
of the Sicilians to Agrigentum, in
obedience to a resolution of the senate;—it was provided in the laws of
Scipio, that there should not be a greater number of members of the senate taken
from the class of settlers than from the old inhabitants of Agrigentum. That man, who had levelled all laws by
bribery, and who had taken away all distinction between things for money, not only
disturbed all those regulations which related to age, rank, and traffic, but even
with respect to these two classes of old and new inhabitants, he disturbed the
proportion of their selection.
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