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31.
Tum interrogante accusatore an cultus dotalis, an
detractum cervici monile venum dedisset, quo pecuniam
faciendis magicis sacris contraheret, primum strata humi
longoque fletu et silentio, post altaria et aram complexa
'nullos' inquit 'impios deos, nullas devotiones, nec aliud
infelicibus precibus invocavi quam ut hunc optimum patrem
tu, Caesar, vos, patres, servaretis incolumem. sic gemmas
et vestis et dignitatis insignia dedi, quo modo si sanguinem
et vitam poposcissent. viderint isti, antehac mihi ignoti,
quo nomine sint, quas artes exerceant: nulla mihi principis
mentio nisi inter numina fuit. nescit tamen miserrimus
pater et, si crimen est, sola deliqui.'
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
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