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What more? did you not take
away out of the temple of Jupiter that most
holy statue of Jupiter Imperator, which the Greeks call Ὄυριος, most beautifully made? What next? did you hesitate to take
away out of the temple of Libera, that most exquisite bust of Parian marble, which
we used to go to see? And that Paean used to be worshipped among that people
together with Aesculapius, with anniversary sacrifices. Aristaeus, who being, as the
Greeks report, the son of Bacchus, is said to have been the inventor of oil, was
consecrated among them together with his father Bacchus, in the same temple.
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