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Mary Beard writes that Cicero denounced Gaius Verres on, among other things, his "profiteering of the corn supply" - but didn't corn only arrive to Europe with the Spanish/Portuguese in the 16th century? What was Cicero's "corn"?

by /u/CheetoBenitoBurrito in /r/AskHistorians

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