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Dices tua quoque signa et tabulas pictas ornamento urbi foroque populi Romani fuisse.

You will say that your statues and paintings were also an ornament to the city and forum of the Roman people.

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menimi; vidi simul cum populo Romano forum comitiumque adornatum ad specium magnifico ornatu

I recollect; I, together with the Roman people, saw the forum and place for holding assemblies adorned with a display magnificent to the eye

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sed sensum cogitationemque acerbo et lugubri;

but painful and distressing to the heart and mind.

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vidi conlucere omnia furtis tuis praeda provinciarum, spoliis sociorum atque amicorum.

I saw everything glittering with your thefts, with the plunder of the provinces, with the spoils of our allies and friends.

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Quo quidem tempore, iudices, iste spem maximam reliquorum quoque peccatorum nactus est;

At which time, O judges, that fellow conceived the hope of committing his other crimes.

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vidit enim eos qui iudicorum se dominos dici volebant harum cupiditatum esse servos.

For he saw that those men, who wished to be called the masters of the courts of law, were slaves to these desires.

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menimi; vidi simul cum populo Romano forum comitiumque adornatum ad specium magnifico ornatu

I recollect; I, together with the Roman people, saw the forum and place for holding assemblies adorned with a display magnificent to the eye

sed sensum cogitationemque acerbo et lugubri;

vidi conlucere omnia furtis tuis praeda provinciarum, spoliis sociorum atque amicorum.

Quo quidem tempore, iudices, iste spem maximam reliquorum quoque peccatorum nactus est;

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