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First of all, listen, O judges, to his splendid
edict. “Whatever amount of tithe the collector declared that the
cultivator ought to pay, that amount the cultivator should be compelled to pay to
the collector.”—How? Let him pay as much as Apronius demands?
What is this? is the regulation of a praetor for allies, or the edict and command of
an insane tyrant to conquered enemies? Am I to give as much as he demands? He will
demand every grain that I can get out of my land. Am I to give all? Yes, and more
too, if he chooses. What, then, am I to do? What do you think? You must either pay,
or you will be convicted of having disobeyed the edict. O ye immortal gods, what a
state of things is this For it is hardly credible. And indeed.
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