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Oh! but you
had heard of it, I suppose, from some good man, from some good authority. How could
you have done that, when you could never have heard of it from any man at all? You
heard of it, therefore, from a woman; since men could not have seen it nor known of
it. What sort of woman do you think that she must have been, O judges? What a modest
woman must she have been to converse with Verres! What a pious woman, to show him a
plan for robbing a temple! But it is no great wonder if those sacred ceremonies
which are performed by the most extreme chastity of virgins and matrons were
violated by his adultery and profligacy.
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