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And you, O Latona, O Apollo, O Diana, whose (I will not say
temples, but, as the universal opinion and religious belief agrees,) ancient
birthplace and divine home at Delos he
plundered by a nocturnal robbery and attack;—You, also, O Apollo, whose
image he carried away from Chios;—You, again and again, O Diana, whom he plundered at
Perga; whose most holy image at Segesta, where it had been twice consecrated—once by their
own religious gift, and a second time by the victory of Publius
Africanus—he dared to take away and remove;—And you, O Mercury,
whom Verres had placed in his villa, and in some private palaestra, but whom Publius
Africanus had placed in a city of the allies. and in the gymnasium of the
Tyndaritans, as a guardian and protector of the youth of the city;—
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