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hoc de homine ac de huius bonis etiam in Eryco1 monte
monumentum tuorum furtorum, flagitiorum2 crudelitatisque
posuisti, in quo Stheni Thermitani nomen adscriptum est.
vidi argenteum Cupidinem cum lampade. quid tandem
habuit argumenti aut rationis res quam ob rem in eo potissimum
Sthenianum praemium poneretur? utrum hoc signum
cupiditatis tuae an tropaeum necessitudinis atque hospiti an
amoris indicium esse voluisti? faciunt hoc homines3 quos
in summa nequitia non solum libido et voluptas, verum
etiam ipsius nequitiae fama delectet4, ut multis in locis notas
ac vestigia suorum flagitiorum relinqui velint.
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