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But from whence was that Liberty brought? for I sought for her diligently.
She is said to have been a prostitute at Tanagra. At no great distance from Tanagra a marble image of her was
placed on her tomb. A certain man of noble birth, not altogether unconnected
with this holy priest of Liberty, carried off this statue to decorate his
aedileship. He had in truth cherished the idea of surpassing all his
predecessors in the splendour of his appointments. Therefore he brought away
to his own house, like a prudent man as he was, all the statues and
pictures, all the decorations of any sort, that remained in the temples and
public places, out of Greece and
out of all the islands, for the sake of doing honour to the Roman people.
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