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In truth, the moderate amount of my family
property very nearly corresponds to my necessities; and I shall leave a
sufficiently ample patrimony to my children in the name and memory of their
father. But I cannot without great discredit to the republic, and great shame and misery to myself, continue deprived of my house,
which has been taken from me by wickedness, and, under pretence of religion,
built up again with even more impiety than it was pulled down.
Wherefore, if you consider that my return is pleasing and acceptable to the
immortal gods, to the senate, to the Roman people, to all Italy, to the provinces, to foreign
nations, and to yourselves who have always taken the lead in and exercised a
principal influence over all measures connected with my safety, I beg and
entreat you, O priests, now, since it is the will of the senate that you
should do so, to place me, whom you have restored by your authority and zeal
and votes to my country, with your own hands in my house.
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