I say that it, too, was stripped bare and despoiled by you, that from the cult statue of Diana herself whatever gold it had was removed and carried away. And even that lyre-player of Aspendos, about whom you have often heard what is a proverbial expression among the Greeks – they used to say that he played all of his music inside – he took away and put in the innermost part of his house so that he seems to have outdone even the lyre player at his art.Ģ We know that there is a very ancient and sacred shrine of Diana in Perge. I am saying this: that you, Verres, did not leave a single statue in Aspendos all were loaded up and carried away from the shrines, from the public places, openly, with everybody looking on, on wagons. I am not going to say that this or that statue was taken away from there. 1 Aspendos, as you know, is an old and famous town in Pamphylia, chockfull of the most precious statues.
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