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And I
carry on the same charge to all magistracies, agencies, and priesthoods; by which
acts he has not only trampled on the laws of men, but on all the religious reverence
due to the immortal gods. There is at Syracuse a law respecting their religion, which enjoins a priest of
Jupiter to be taken by lot every year;
and that priesthood is considered among the Syracusans as the most honourable.
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