# De Lege Agraria 1.7

Cicero, De Lege Agraria, Speech 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-lege-agraria/1.7

hoc vero cuius modi est, quod eius auctionis quam constituunt locum sibi nullum definiunt? nam xviris quibus in locis ipsis videatur vendendi potestas lege permittitur. censoribus vectigalia locare nisi in conspectu populi Romani non licet; his vendere vel in ultimis terris licebit? at hoc etiam nequissimi homines consumptis patrimoniis faciunt ut in atriis auctionariis potius quam in triviis aut in compitis auctionentur; hic permittit sua lege xviris ut in quibus commodum sit tenebris, ut in qua velint solitudine, bona populi Romani possint divendere.

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Cicero, De Lege Agraria, ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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