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But how great do you suppose was the honour paid to Jupiter Imperator in his own
temple? You may collect it from this consideration, if you recollect how great was
the religious reverence attached to that statue of the same appearance and form
which Flaminius brought out of Macedonia,
and placed in the Capitol. In truth, there were said to be in the whole world three
statues of Jupiter Imperator, of the same class, all beautifully made: one was that
one from Macedonia, which we have seen in
the Capitol; a second was the one at the narrow straits, which are the mouth of the
Euxine Sea; the third was that which was
at Syracuse, till Verres came as
praetor. Flaminius removed the first from its habitation, but only to place it in
the Capitol, that is to say, in the house of Jupiter upon earth.
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