M. Tullius Cicero, De Lege Agraria, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 42

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[42] haec L. Philippum saepe in senatu confirmasse memoria teneo; eum qui regnum illud teneat hoc tempore neque genere neque animo regio esse inter omnis fere video convenire. dicitur contra nullum esse testamentum, non oportere populum Romanum omnium regnorum appententem videri, demigraturos in illa loca nostros homines propter agrorum bonitatem et omnium rerum copiam.

De Lege Agraria. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1909.

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De Lege Agraria (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 4. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909.)

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On the Agrarian Law Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 42 focus

[42] I recollect that Lucius Philippus has often stated these things positively in the senate. I see that is agreed upon by all men, that he, who is at this present moment in possession of the kingdom, is neither of the royal family nor of any royal disposition.
It is said, on the other hand, that there is no will; that the Roman people ought not to seem to covet every kingdom under the sun; that our citizens will emigrate to those regions, on account of the fertility of the soil and the abundance of everything which exists there.

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