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teque,
Hercules, quem iste Agrigenti nocte
intempesta servorum instructa et comparata manu
convellere suis1 sedibus atque auferre conatus
est; teque, sanctissima mater Idaea, quam apud
Enguinos augustissimo et religiosissimo in2 templo
sic spoliatam reliquit ut nunc nomen modo
Africani et vestigia violatae religionis maneant,
monumenta victoriae fanique ornamenta non
exstent; vosque, omnium rerum forensium,
consiliorum maximorum, legum3 iudiciorumque
arbitri et testes celeberrimo in loco populi
Romani locati, Castor et Pollux, quorum e templo
quaestum iste sibi4 et praedam improbissimam5
comparavit; omnesque di qui vehiculis tensarum
sollemnis coetus ludorum invisitis6, quorum iter
iste ad suum quaestum, non7 ad religionum
dignitatem faciundum exigendumque curavit; teque,
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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