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Updated: May 20, 2025
Forsyth has condemned Cicero, not without abstract truth in his condemnation: "They, indeed, have consented" that is the Salaminians "but what will befall them if some such governor as Paulus should come here? And all this I have done for the sake of Brutus!"
But Cicero again has made a decree that he will authorize no exaction above twelve per cent. in his province. The exact condition of the legal claim is less clear to me than to Mr. Forsyth, who has the advantage of being a lawyer. Be that as it may, Cicero decides that twelve per cent. shall be exacted, and orders the Salaminians to pay the amount.
It was in such a thin senate, we may be sure, that the virtuous Brutus was dispensed from the law which forbade lending to foreign borrowers in Rome, and thus was enabled to lend to the miserable Salaminians of Cyprus at 48 per cent, and to recover his money under the bond.
Æmilius Paulus was the Consul, and might probably have Cilicia as a province, and would no doubt give over the Salaminians to Brutus and his myrmidons without any compunction.
But there has been a law passed that higher interest than one per cent. per month, or twelve per cent. per annum, shall not be legal. There has, however, been a counter decree made in regard to these very Salaminians, and made apparently at the instigation of Brutus, saying that any contract with them shall be held in force, notwithstanding the law.
The Salaminians of Cyprus were famous for their war chariots, of which this may be a representation. The island of Sardinia has furnished a prodigious number of Phoenician seals. A single private collection contains as many as six hundred. They are mostly scarabs, and the type of them is mostly Egyptian.
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