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I said at the beginning, that I was not going to say anything about your
peculiar science; nor about the sacrifices, nor about the recondite laws of
the priests. The arguments which I have hitherto advanced about the right of
dedication, have not been drawn from any secret description of books, but
are taken from common sources, from things openly done by the magistrates
and referred to the sacred college, from resolutions of the senate, and from
the law. Those inner mysteries, what ought to be said, or enjoined, or
touched, or taken hold of are still your own.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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