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Sostratus,
and Numenius, and Nymphodorus, of the same city, three brothers of kindred
sentiments, when they had fled from their lands because more corn was demanded of
them than their lands had produced, were treated thus,—Apronius collected
a band of men, came into their allotments, took away all their tools, carried off
their slaves, and drove off their live stock. Afterwards, when Nymphodorus came to
Aetna to him, and begged to have his
property restored to him, he ordered the man to be seized and hung up on a wild
olive, a tree which is the forum there; and an ally and friend of the Roman people,
a settler and cultivator of your domain, hung suspended from a tree in a city of our
allies, and in the very forum, for as long a period as Apronius chose.
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