Cum acerbae famis tempore gravis atque inexplicabilis  indicta coemptio profligatura inopia Campaniam provinciam videretur, certamen adversum praefectum praetorii communis commodi ratione suscepi, rege cognoscente contendi et ne coemptio exigeretur, evici.
When in a time of grievous famine it seemed there was to be by order a terrible and quite indefensible compulsory purchase of supplies which would have reduced the province of Campania to destitution, I took up the fight with the Praetorian Prefect for the sake of the common good, I fought against the enforcement of the purchase before the king, and I won.
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