Note 1517 — Chapter VIII · THE ORGANISATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES
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Cic. in Verr. iii. 70, 163. Cf. Liv. xxxvi. 2 “idem L. Oppio de alteris decumis exigendis in Sardinia imperatum.” Sometimes this enforced sale of corn (frumentum imperatum) was required from free cities such as Halaesa, Centuripae, and Messana in Sicily (Cic. in Verr. iii 73, 170; iv. 9, 20).