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Therefore, according to their answers, games were celebrated for ten days, nor was anything
omitted which might tend to the appeasing of the gods. And they enjoined also that we should
make a greater statue of Jupiter, and place it in a lofty situation, and (contrary to what
had been done before) turn it towards the east. And they said that they hoped that if that
statue which you now behold looked upon the rising of the sun, and the forum, and the
senate-house, that those designs which were secretly formed against the safety of the city
and empire would be brought to light so as to be able to be thoroughly seen by the senate and
by the Roman people. And the consuls ordered it to be so placed; but so great was the delay
in the work, that it was never set up by the former consuls nor by us before this day.
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