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In the agrarian question Caesar, who already in his first consulship had been in a position to regulate it, more judicious than Tiberius Gracchus, did not seek to restore the farmer-system at any price, even at that of a revolution concealed under juristic clauses directed against property; by him on the contrary, as by every other genuine statesman, the security of that which is property or is at any rate regarded by the public as property was esteemed as the first and most inviolable of all political maxims, and it was only within the limits assigned by this maxim that he sought to accomplish the elevation of the Italian small holdings, which also appeared to him as a vital question for the nation.
In the agrarian question Caesar, who already in his first consulship had been in a position to regulate it, more judicious than Tiberius Gracchus, did not seek to restore the farmer-system at any price, even at that of a revolution concealed under juristic clauses directed against property; by him on the contrary, as by every other genuine statesman, the security of that which is property or is at any rate regarded by the public as property was esteemed as the first and most inviolable of all political maxims, and it was only within the limits assigned by this maxim that he sought to accomplish the elevation of the Italian small holdings, which also appeared to him as a vital question for the nation.
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