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Quocirca te, Capitoline, quem propter beneficia
populus Romanus optimum, propter vim maximum
nominavit, teque, Iuno Regina, et te, custos urbis, Minerva,
quae semper adiutrix consiliorum meorum, testis laborum
exstitisti, precor atque quaeso, vosque qui maxime me1 repetistis
atque revocastis, quorum de sedibus haec mihi est proposita
contentio, patrii penates familiaresque, qui huic urbi
et rei publicae praesidetis2, vos obtestor, quorum ego a templis
atque delubris pestiferam illam et nefariam flammam
depuli, teque, Vesta mater, cuius castissimas sacerdotes ab
hominum amentium3 furore et scelere defendi, cuiusque ignem
illum sempiternum non sum passus aut sanguine civium
restingui aut cum totius urbis incendio commisceri,
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