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Lastly the
immortal gods themselves, who protect this city and empire, appear to me to
have claimed the credit of my return and of the happiness which it has
diffused as due to the power and judicial sentence of their priests in order
to make it evident to all nations and to all posterity that I had been
restored to the republic by divine agency. For this return of mine, O
priests and this restoration consists in recovering my house, my
possessions, my altars, my hearths, and my household gods. And if that
fellow with his most wicked hands tears up their dwellings and abodes and
with the consuls for his leaders, as if the city were taken, has thought it
becoming to destroy this house alone, as if it were the house of its most
active defender, still those household gods, those deities of my family,
will be by you replaced in my house at the same time as myself.
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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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