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But as to the one that is at the entrance of the Euxine, that,
though so many wars have proceeded from the shores of that sea, and though so many
have been poured into Pontus, has still
remained inviolate and untouched to this day. This third one, which was at
Syracuse, which Marcus Marcellus,
when in arms and victorious, had seen, which he had spared to the religion of the
place, which both the citizens of, and settlers in Syracuse were used to worship, and strangers not only visited, but
often venerated, Caius Verres took away from the temple of Jupiter.
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