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However, what vexed the people more than this or anything else was the erection of a temple of Concord by Opimius1; for it was felt that he was priding himself and exulting and in a manner celebrating a triumph in view of all this slaughter of citizens. Therefore at night, beneath the inscription on the temple, somebody carved this verse:—
‘A work of mad discord produces a temple of Concord.’
1 Opimus restored the temple of Concord which had been built by Camillus (see the Camillus, xlii. 4.）
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. 10.
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