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Nor, indeed, did the bands and forces of Catiline think
that they could appease their hunger with the tiles and mortar of my roofs.
But as, without being influenced by the idea of booty, still out of hatred
we are accustomed to destroy the cities of enemies;—not of all
enemies indeed, but of those with whom we have waged any bitter and
intestine war; because when our minds have been inflamed against any people
by reason of their cruelty, there always appears to be some war still
lingering in their abodes and habitations,
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