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saepe etiam definiunt et oratores et poetae per translationem1
verbi ex similitudine cum aliqua suavitate. Sed ego a
vestris exemplis nisi necessario non recedam. Solebat
igitur Aquilius conlega et familiaris meus, cum de litoribus
ageretur, quae omnia publica esse vultis, quaerentibus eis
quos ad2 id pertinebat, quid esset litus, ita definire, qua
fluctus eluderet; hoc est, quasi qui adulescentiam florem
aetatis, senectutem occasum vitae velit definire; translatione
enim utens discedebat a verbis propriis rerum ac suis.
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