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M'.
Curi.' Credo; sed Atheniensium quoque plus interfuit
firma tecta in domiciliis habere quam Minervae signum ex
ebore pulcherrimum; tamen ego me Phidiam esse mallem
quam vel optimum fabrum tignarium1. Qua re non quantum quisque prosit, sed quanti quisque sit ponderandum
est; praesertim cum pauci pingere egregie possint aut fingere, operarii autem aut baiuli deesse non possint.
1 tignarium G2: tignuarium L
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica, Tomus II. A. S. Wilkins. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1911. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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