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You see now one kind of sale, which I am aware appears very important to you; but pray give
your attention to what follows, and you will see that this is only a kind of step and road to
other measures. “Whatever lands, whatever places, whatever buildings.”
What is there besides? There is much property in slaves, in cattle, in bullion, in money, in
ivory, in robes, in furniture, in all sorts of other things. What shall that say? Did he
think it would cause unpopularity to name all these things? He was not afraid of
unpopularity. What then was his motive? He thought the catalogue a long one, and he was
afraid of passing over anything; so he wrote in addition, “or anything
else;” by which brief formula you see that nothing can be omitted. Whatever,
therefore, there is out of Italy, that has been made
the property of the Roman people by Lucius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius in their consulships,
or afterwards, that he orders the decemvirs to sell.
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