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And indeed I am so far moved by the
other robberies and atrocities of that fellow, as to think them worthy of great
reproof; but that might be sufficient for them. But in this instance I am roused to
such indignation, that nothing appears to me possible to be more scandalous or more
intolerable. Shall Verres adorn his house, full of adultery, full of debauchery,
full of infamy, with the monuments of Africanus? Shall Verres face the memorial of
that most temperate and religious man, the image of the ever virgin Diana, in that
house in which the iniquities of harlots and pimps are incessantly being practised?
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