idem Victorias aureas et pateras et coronas, quae simulacrorum porrectis manibus sustinebantur, tollebat, et eas se accipere non auferre dicebat, perquam stultum esse argumentando, a quibus bona precamur, ab his porrigentibus nolle sumere.
Also he used to carry off the golden Victories and dishes and garlands held in the outstretched hands of images, saying that he was accepting, not taking them away, arguing that it made no sense at all not to take good things when proffered by those to whom we pray for them.
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