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Therefore those censors did the same thing that those do in our
republic, who have got offices by bribery; they took care to use their power so as
to fill up again that gap in their property. The census was so taken, when you were
praetor, that the affairs of no state whatever could be administered according to
such a census. For they made a low return of the incomes of all the richest men, and
exaggerated that of each poor man. And so in levying the taxes so heavy a burden was
laid upon the common people, that even if the men themselves said nothing, the facts
alone would discredit that census, as may easily be understood from the
circumstances themselves.
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