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But the allies and foreign nations then
first abandoned the hope of saving any of their property and fortunes, because, as
it happened, there were at that time very many ambassadors from Asia and Achaia at Rome, who
worshipped in the forum the images of the gods which had been taken from their
temples. And so also, when they recognised the other statues and ornaments, they
wept, as they beheld the different pieces of their property in different place. And
from all those men we then used to hear discourses of this
sort:—“That it was impossible for any one to doubt of the ruin
of our allies and friends, when men saw in the forum of the Roman people, in which
formerly those men used to be accused and condemned who had done any injury to the
allies, those things now openly placed which had been wickedly seized and taken away
from the allies.”
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