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But why need I dilate upon your
cruelty which you have displayed towards me and mine? when you have waged a
horrible and nefarious war, dyed with every description of hatred against my
walls, my roofs, my pillars and door-posts. For I do not think that you,
when, after my departure, you in the covetousness of your hopes had devoured
the fortunes of all the rich men, the produce of all the provinces, the
property of tetrarchs and of kings, were blinded by the desire of my plate
and furniture. I do not think that that Campanian consul with his dancing
colleague, after you had sacrificed to the one all Achaia, Thessaly, Boeotia,
Greece, Macedonia and all the countries of the
barbarians, and the property of the Roman citizens in those countries, and
when you had delivered up to the other Sulla, Babylon, and the Persians those hitherto uninjured and
peaceful nations, to plunder, I do not think, I say, that they were covetous
of my thresholds and pillars and folding doors.
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