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Now remark their other immense and intolerable gains, in order to understand that this
popular name of an agrarian law has only been hunted out as a means of gratifying the
unreasonable avarice of particular men. He orders lands to be bought with this money, to
which you are to be conducted as colonists. I am not accustomed, O Romans, to speak or men
with unnecessary harshness unless I am provoked. I wish it were possible for those men to be
named by me without speaking ill of them, who hope to be themselves appointed decemvirs; and
you should quickly see what sort of men they are to whom you have committed the power of
selling and buying everything.
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