[54]
At
Perga we are aware that there is a very ancient and very holy temple of Diana. That
too, I say, was stripped and plundered by you; and all the gold which there was on
Diana herself was taken off and carried away. What, in the name of mischief, can
such audacity and inanity mean? In the very cities of our friends and allies, which
you visited under the pretext of your office as lieutenant, if you had stormed them
by force with an army, and had exercised military rule there; still, I think, the
statues and ornaments which you took away, you would have carried, not to your own
house, nor to the suburban villas of your friends, but to Rome for the public use.
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