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He inquired who was bound to
deliver up the temple of Castor in good repair. He knew that Junius himself was dead; he desired to know to whom
his property belonged. He hears that his son is under age. The fellow, who had been
in the habit of saying openly that boys and girls who were minors were the surest
prey for the praetors, said that the thing he had so long wished for had been
brought into his bosom. He thought that, in the care of a monument of such vast
size, of such laborious finish, however sound and in however thorough a state of
repair it might be, he should certainly find something to do, and some excuse for
plunder.
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