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He has a father-in-law, a most excellent man, who in
those dark times of the republic got as much land as he wanted. He now seeing him yielding,
oppressed weighed down with the burdens which Sulla put upon him, wishes to come to his
assistance with this law of his, so as to enable him to get rid of the odium attached to him,
and to get a sum of money too. And will not you hesitate to sell your revenues, acquired by
the profuse expenditure of labour and blood on the part of your ancestors, for the purpose of
heaping more riches on the landowners who have become so through Sulla, and of releasing them
from danger?
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