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Quid tam multa
conquiritis ? Scilicet maiores nostri, quorum virtus
etiamnunc vitia nostra sustentat, infelices erant, qui
sibi manu sua parabant cibum, quibus terra cubile
erat, quorum tecta nondum auro fulgebant, quorum
templa nondum gemmis nitebant. Itaque tune per
fictiles deos religiose iurabatur ; qui illos invocaverant,
[p. 452]
ad hostem morituri, ne fallerent, redibant.
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