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For, in all those countries which are now under our
dominion, what temple do you think has had a sufficiently holy reputation, what city has been
sufficiently sacred, what private house has been sufficiently closed and fortified, to be safe
from them? They seek out wealthy and splendid cities to find presence for making war on them
for the sake of plundering them.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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