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But now that the common
religion of all nations is attacked in this way, now that these sacred observances
are violated which our ancestors adopted and imported from foreign countries, and
have honoured ever since,—sacred observances, which they called Greek
observances, as in truth they were,—even if we were to wish to be
indifferent and cold about these matters, how could we be so?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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