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But this return of mine, O priests, depends now on your decision. For if you
place me in my house, then I do plainly see and feel that I am restored,
which is what all through my cause you have been always labouring to effect
by your displays of zeal, by your counsels, and influence, and resolutions;
but if, my house is not only not restored to me, but is
even allowed to continue to furnish my enemy with a memorial of my distress,
of his own wicked triumph, of the public calamity, who is there who will
consider this a restoration, and not rather an eternal punishment? Moreover,
my house, O priests, is in the sight of the whole city; and if there remains
in it that (I will not call it monument of the city, but that) tomb
inscribed with the name of my enemy, I had better migrate to some other
spot, rather than dwell in that city in which I am to see trophies erected
as tokens of victory over me and over the republic.
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