I am waiting to see what this
 vigilant and clever tribune is contriving. Let the Scantian The Scantian
 wood was in Campania . wood, says he, be sold.
 Did you then find this wood mentioned among the possessions that were left, or in the pasture
 lands of the lessors? If there is anything which you have hunted out, and discovered, brought
 to light out of darkness, although it is not just, still use that, since it is convenient, and
 since you yourself were the person to bring it forward. But shall you sell the Scantian wood
 while we are consuls, and while this senate is in existence? Shall you touch any of the
 revenues? Shall you take away from the Roman people that which is their strength in time of
 war, their ornament in time of peace? But then indeed, I shall think myself a lazier consul
 than those fearless men who filled this office in the times of our ancestors; because the
 revenues which were acquired by the Roman people when they were consuls, will be considered not
 able to be preserved when I am consul. He is selling all the possessions in Italy , in
 regular order. Forsooth, he is very busy in that occupation. For does not omit one. He goes
 through the whole of Sicily in the account-books of
 the censors. He does not omit one single house, or one single field. You have heard an auction
 of the property of the Roman people given notice of by tribune of the people, and fixed for the
 month of January and I suppose you do not doubt, that they who procured these things by their
 arms and their valour, did not sell the for the sake of the treasury, on purpose that we might
 have something to sell for the sake of bribery.