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The people of Petra,
though their tenths had been sold at a high price, were, very much against their
will, compelled to give thirty-seven thousand sesterces
to Publius Naevius Turpio, a most infamous man, who was convicted of assault while
Sacerdos was praetor. Did you sell the tenths so carelessly, that, when a medimnus cost fifteen sesterces,
and when the tenths were sold for three thousand medimni, that is, for forty-five thousand sesterces, still three thousand sesterces
could be given to the farmer as a compliment? “Oh, but I sold the tenths
of that district at a high price” he boasts, forsooth, not that a
compliment was given to Turpio, but that money was taken from the Petrans.
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