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What next? What sort of
edicts are those which he issued to meet particular occasions, at the suggestion of
Apronius? When Quintus Septitius, a most honourable man, and a Roman knight,
resisted Apronius, and declared that he would not pay more than a tenth, a sudden
special edict makes its appearance, that no one is to remove his corn from the
threshing-floor before he has settled the demands of the collector. Septitius put up
with this injustice also, and allowed his corn to be damaged by the rain, while
remaining on the threshing-floor, when on a sudden that most fruitful and profitable
edict comes out, that every one was to have his tenths delivered at the water-side
before the first of August.
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