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Who
then, in the name of the immortal gods, will defend the memory of Publius Scipio now
that he is dead? who will defend the memorials and evidences of his valour, if you
desert and abandon them; and not only allow them to be plundered and taken away, but
even defend their plunderer and destroyer? The Segestans are present, your clients,
the allies and friends of the Roman people. They inform you that Publius Africanus,
when he had destroyed Carthage,
restored the image of Diana to their ancestors; and that was set up among the
Segestans arid dedicated in the name of that general;—that Verres has had
it taken down and carried away, and as far as that is concerned, has utterly effaced
and extinguished the name of Publius Scipio. They entreat and pray you to restore
the object of their worship to them, its proper credit and glory to your own family,
so enabling them by your assistance to recover from the house of a robber, what they
recovered from the city of their enemies by the beneficence of Publius Africanus.
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