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There was in the house of Heius a private chapel of great
sacredness, handed down to him from his ancestors, very ancient; in which he had
four very beautiful statues, made with the greatest skill, and of very high
character; calculated not only to delight Verres, that clever and accomplished man,
but even any one of us whom he calls the mob:—one, a statue of Cupid, in
marble, a work of Praxiteles; for in truth, while I have been inquiring into that
man's conduct, I have learnt the names of the workmen; it was the same workman, as I
imagine, who made that celebrated Cupid of the same figure as this which is at
Thespiae, on account of which people go
to see Thespiae, for there is no other
reason for going to see it; and therefore that great man Lucius Mummius, when he
carried away from that town the statues of the Muses which are now before the temple
of Good Fortune, and the other statues which were not consecrated, did not touch
this marble Cupid, because it had been consecrated.
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