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For what difference
does it make whether, when just driven from the most holy of altars, he
makes complaints of the state of the sacrifices and religious observances;
or whether, having just left his sister's bed-chamber, he
speaks in defence of modesty and chastity? In his harangue he recited the
lately received answer of the soothsayers about the noises which have been
heard; in which among many other things it is stated, (as you have heard
yourselves,) that holy and sacred places had been treated as common. Under
that head he said that my house was intended, which had been consecrated by
that holiest of pontiffs, Publius Clodius.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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