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This same man while praetor plundered and
stripped those most ancient monuments, some erected by wealthy monarchs and intended
by them as ornaments for their cities; some, too, the work of our own generals,
which they either gave or restored as conquerors to the different states in
Sicily. And he did this not only in the
case of public statues and ornaments, but he also plundered all the temples
consecrated in the deepest religious feelings of the people. He did not leave, in
short, one god to the Sicilians which appeared to him to be made in a tolerably
workmanlike manner, and with any of the skill of the ancients. I am prevented by
actual shame from speaking of his nefarious licentiousness as shown in rapes and
other such enormities; and I am unwilling also to increase the distress of those men
who have been unable to preserve their children and their wives unpolluted by his
wanton lust.
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