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The senate commended their public spirit, and erected the temple and its image at the public charge,1 but they none the less contributed money themselves and set up a second image of the goddess, and this, the Romans say, as it was placed in the temple, uttered some such words as these:
‘Dear to the gods, O women, is your pious gift of me.’
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2 Cf. Dionysius, viii. 56.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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