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Iis1 igitur est difficilius satis facere, qui se Latina2
scripta dicunt contemnere. in quibus hoc primum est
in quo admirer, cur in gravissimis rebus non delectet
eos sermo patrius, cum idem fabellas Latinas ad verbum e Graecis expressas non inviti legant. quis enim
tam inimicus paene nomini3 Romano est, qui Ennii Medeam aut Antiopam Pacuvii spernat aut reiciat, quod
se isdem Euripidis fabulis delectari dicat, Latinas litteras oderit? Synephebos ego, inquit, potius Caecilii aut
Andriam Terentii quam utramque Menandri legam?
A quibus tantum dissentio, ut, cum Sophocles vel optime scripserit Electram, tamen male conversam Atilii4
mihi legendam putem, de quo Lucilius:5
M. Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia, fasc. 43. de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. M. Tullius Cicero. Th. Schiche. Leipzig. Teubner. 1915.
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