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It was by you that the temple of Jupiter Urius, the most ancient and the most
venerated of all the temples of the barbarians, was plundered. They are your
crimes which the immortal gods have been avenging on our soldiers; for when
they were all attacked by one kind of disease, and when no one who had once
fallen sick was found to recover, no one had any doubt that it must have
been the insults offered to men connected with us by ties of hospitality,
and the murder of ambassadors, and the attacking of peaceful and allied
tribes with wanton and wicked war, and the plundering of temples, which were the causes of this great destruction. You can
recognise in such brief particulars as these the universal nature of your
wickedness and cruelty.
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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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