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He was burning with love of that hostess for
whose sake he had violated the laws of hospitality. He wished that not only to be
known, but also to be recorded for ever. And therefore, out of the proceeds of that
very action which he had performed, Agathinus being the accuser, he thought that a
reward was especially due to Venus, who had caused the prosecution and the whole
proceeding. I should think you grateful to the Gods if you had given this gift to
Venus, not out of the property of Sthenius, but out of your own, as you ought to
have done, especially as an inheritance had come to you from Chelidon that very same
year.
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