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You have heard the Centuripans, the Agyrians,
the Catenans, the Herbitans, the Ennans, and many other deputies say, in the name of
their states, how great was the solitude in their districts, how great the
devastation, how universal the flight of the cultivators of the soil how deserted,
how uncultivated, how desolate every place was. And although there are many and
various injuries done by that man to which these things are owing, still this one
cause, in the opinion of the Sicilians, is the most weighty of all; for, because of
the insults offered to Ceres, they believe
that all the crops and gifts of Ceres have
perished in these districts. Bring remedies, O judges, to the insulted religion of
the allies; preserve your own, for this is not a foreign religion, nor one with
which you have no concern. But even if it were, if you were unwilling to adopt it
yourselves, still you ought to be willing to inflict heavy punishment on the man who
had violated it.
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