You see now one kind of sale, which I am aware appears very important to you; but pray give
 your attention to what follows, and you will see that this is only a kind of step and road to
 other measures. “Whatever lands, whatever places, whatever buildings.” What is there besides?
 There is much property in slaves, in cattle, in bullion, in money, in ivory, in robes, in
 furniture, in all sorts of other things. What shall that say? Did he think it would cause
 unpopularity to name all these things? He was not afraid of unpopularity. What then was his
 motive? He thought the catalogue a long one, and he was afraid of passing over anything; so he
 wrote in addition, “or anything else;” by which brief formula you see that nothing can be
 omitted. Whatever, therefore, there is out of Italy ,
 that has been made the property of the Roman people by Lucius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius in
 their consulships, or afterwards, that he orders the decemvirs to sell. By this clause, I say, O Romans, that all nations, and people, and provinces,
 and kingdoms, are given up and handed over to the dominion, and judgment, and power of the
 decemvirs. This is the first thing; for I ask what place there is anywhere in the world which
 the decemvirs may not be able to say has been made the property of the Roman people? For, when
 the same person who has made the assertion is also to judge of the truth of it, what is there
 which he may not say, when he is also the person to decide in the question? It will be very
 convenient to say, that Pergamus , and Smyrna , and Tralles ,
 and Ephesus , and Miletus , and Cyzicus , and, in short,
 all Asia , which has been recovered since the
 consulship of Lucius Sulla and Quintus Pompeius, has become the property of the Roman people.