Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, A. Gellii Noctium Atticarum, Liber Primus, XXII, section 10

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[10] vel quod abundans nimis et afluens et exuberans ¹ ; sic nostros quoque veteres “superesse” alias dixisse pro superfluenti et vacivo neque admodum necessario, ita ut supra posuimus Varronem dicere, alias ita ut Cicero dixit, pro eo quod copia quidem et facultate ceteris anteiret, super modum tamen et largius prolixiusque flueret quam esset satis.

1 exuperans, ω.; corr. by Hertz.

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.

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