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Meantime that man, with that
covetousness of his which was now notorious and the common talk of every one, as he
took a violent fancy to some exceedingly beautiful and very ancient statues at
Thermae placed in the public place, began to beg of Sthenius to promise him his
countenance and to aid him in taking them away. But Sthenius not only refused, but
declared to him that it was utterly impossible that most ancient statues, memorials
of Publius Africanus, should ever be taken away out of the town of the Thermitani,
as long as that city and the empire of the Roman people remained uninjured.
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