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Now, O good and great Jupiter, you, whose
royal present, worthy of your most splendid temple, worthy of the Capitol and of
that citadel of all nations, worthy of being the gift of a king, made for you by a
king, dedicated and promised to you, that man by his nefarious wickedness wrested
from the hands of a monarch; you whose most holy and most beautiful image he carried
away from Syracuse;—And you,
O royal Juno, whose two temples, situated in two islands of our allies—at
Melita and Samos—temples of the
greatest sanctity and the greatest antiquity, that same man, with similar
wickedness, stripped of all their presents and ornaments;—And you, O
Minerva, whom he also pillaged in two of your most renowned and most venerated
temples—at Athens, when he
took away a great quantity of gold, and at Syracuse, when he took away everything except the roof and
walls;—
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