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"Emptum aprum!" said Lord Colambre to the count, without danger of being understood by those whom it concerned.
''Pon honour, cried Lady Dashfort, 'I can swear for Heathcock, that I have eaten excellent hares and ducks of his shooting, which, to my knowledge, added she, in a loud whisper, 'he bought in the market. EMPTUM APRUM! said Lord Colambre to the count, without danger of being understood by those whom it concerned.
How Verres saw to this himself, and how he treated the Sicilian husbandmen in regard to the tithe, is so told that we are obliged to give the man credit for an infinite fertility of resources. Then there is the "emptum," or corn bought for the use of Rome, of which there were two kinds.
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