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him, by the execution of whom the
senate has repeatedly resolved that solemn religious observances required to
be propitiated; him whom Lucius Lucullus, when he was examined on the point,
declared on his oath that he had detected in committing unhallowed incest
with his own sister; him, who by means of armed bands of slaves drove from
his country that citizen whom the senate, whom the Roman people, whom all
nations had declared to be the saviour of the city and of the lives of all
the citizens; him, who gave kingdoms, took them away, and distributed the
whole world to whomsoever he pleased; him who, after having committed
numberless murders in the forum, drove a citizen of the most extraordinary
virtue and glory to his own house by violence and by arms; him, to whom
nothing was ever too impious to be done, whether it was a deed of atrocity
or of lust; him, who burnt the temple of the nymphs, in order to extinguish
the public record of the census which was committed to the public registers;
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