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What
protection, what comfort, will that unhappy maiden have left, if she loses this her brother?
For other women can bring forth protectors for themselves—can have in their homes a
companion and a partner in all their fortunes; but to this maiden, what is there that can be
agreeable or dear, except her brother? Do not, O judges, allow the altars of the immortal
gods, and of our mother Vesta, to be reminded of your tribunal by the daily lamentations of a
holy virgin. Beware lest that eternal flame, which is now preserved by the nightly toils and
vigils of Fonteia, should be said to have been extinguished by the tears of your priestess.
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