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There
is a temple of the mighty mother Cybele at Enguinum, for I must new not only mention
each instance with the greatest brevity, but I must even pass over a great many, in
order to come to the greater and more remarkable thefts and atrocities of this sort
which this man has committed. In this temple that same Publius Scipio, a man
excelling in every possible good quality, had placed breastplates and helmets of
brass of Corinthian workmanship, and some huge ewers of a similar description, and
wrought with the same exquisite skill, and had inscribed his own name upon them. Why
should I make any more statements or utter any further complaints about that man's
conduct? He took away, O judges, every one of those things. He left nothing in that
most holy temple except the traces of the religion he had trampled on, and the name
of Publius Scipio. The spoils won from the enemy, the memorials of our commanders,
the ornaments and decorations of our temples, will hereafter, when these illustrious
names are lost, be reckoned in the furniture and appointments of Caius Verres.
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