Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Liber Nonus, II, section 11

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“ [11] Cur ergo nos patimur nomen philosophiae inlustrissimum in hominibus deterrimis exsordescere? Simili autem,” inquit, “exemplo ex contraria specie antiquos Romanorum audio praenomina patriciorum quorundam male de republica meritorum et ob eam causam capite damnatorum censuisse, ne cui eiusdem gentis patricio inderentur, ut vocabula quoque eorum defamata atque demortua cum ipsis viderentur.”

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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