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Wherefore, O I pray and entreat you, O thou great God of the Capitol, thee
whom the Roman people has styled, on account of your kindnesses to us, All
Good, and, on account of your might All Powerful; and you, O royal Juno; and
you, O guardian of the city, O Minerva, you who have at all times been my
assistant in my counsels, and the witness of my exertions; and you too, you
who above all others have claimed me back and recalled me, you, for the sake
of whose habitations most especially it is that I am engaged in this
contest, O household gods of my fathers, and of my family; and you too, who
preside over this city and this republic, you do I entreat, from whose
spires and temples I once repelled that fatal and impious flame, you too do
I supplicate, O Vesta, whose chaste priestesses I have defended from the
rage and frenzy and wickedness of men whose renowned and eternal fire I
could not suffer either to be extinguished in the blood of the citizens or
to be confused with the conflagration of the whole city, I entreat you all
that,—
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