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Was I not bound to examine into the complaints and
injuries of the cultivators of the soil, in the very lands and fields themselves? I traveled,
I say, O Triarius, in a most bitter winter over the valleys and hills of the Agrigentines.
That noble and most fertile plain of the Leontini itself; I may almost say, instructed me in
the cause. I visited the cottages of the farmers; men talked with me at the plough;
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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