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Lastly, can
anything appear holy or solemn in the eyes of those men, who, if ever they are so much
influenced by any fear as to think it necessary to propitiate the immortal gods, defile their
altars and temples with human victims? So that they cannot pay proper honour to religion
itself without first violating it with wickedness. For who is ignorant that, to this very day,
they retain that savage and barbarous custom of sacrificing men? What, therefore, do you
suppose is the good faith, what the piety of those men, who think that even the immortal gods
can be most easily propitiated by the wickedness and murder of men? Will you connect your own
religious ideas with these witnesses? Will you think that anything is said holily or
moderately by these men?
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