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Have you any shame, O Verres? have you any religion? have you any fear, You have
lived in Heius's house at Messana; you saw
him almost daily performing sacred rites in his private chapel before those gods. He
is not influenced by money; he does not even ask to have those things restored which
were merely ornaments. Keep the Canephorae; restore the images of the gods. And
because he said this, because after a given time he, an ally and friend of the Roman
people, addressed his complaints to you in a moderate tone, because he was very
attentive to religious obligation not only while demanding back his paternal gods,
but also in giving his evidence on oath; know that one of the deputies has been sent
back to Messana, that very man who
superintended the building of that ship at the public expense, to demand from the
senate that Heius should be condemned to an ignominious punishment.
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