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The answer about sacred and holy places comes next. Oh, the marvellous
impudence of the man! do you dare to make mention of my house? Entrust your
own to the consuls, or the senate, or the college of pontiffs; and mine, as
I have said before, has been declared by all these three decisions to be
free from all religions liability. But in that house which you keep
possession of after having slain Quintus Seius, a Roman knight and most
excellent man, in the most open manner, I say that there was a shrine and
altars. I will prove and establish this fact by the registers of the
censors, and by the recollection of many individuals. Only let this question
be discussed, (and it must be referred to you by virtue of that resolution
of the senate which has lately been passed,) and I have plenty to say on the
subject of religious places.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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