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Vessels
were brought out without their cases; others were wrenched out of the hands of
women; many people's doors were broken open, and their locks forced. For what else
can you suppose? Even if ever, at a time of war and tumult, arms are demanded of
private citizens, still men give them unwillingly, though they know that they are
giving them for the common safety. Do not suppose then that any one produced his
carved plate out of his house for another man to steal, without the greatest
distress. Everything is brought down to the shore. The Cibyratic brothers are
summoned; they condemn some articles; whatever they approve of has its figures in
relief or its embossed emblems torn off. And so the Haluntines, having had all their
ornaments wrenched off, returned home with the plain silver.
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