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mulier est1 Segestana
perdives
et nobilis, Lamia nomine, per2 triennium isti plena domo
telarum stragulam vestem confecit, nihil nisi conchylio
tinctum Attalus, homo pecuniosus, Neti, Lyso Lilybaei,
Critolaus Aetnae, Syracusis Aeschrio, Cleomenes, Theomnastus,
Helori3 Archonidas,—dies me citius defecerit
quam nomina. 'ipse dabat purpuram, tantum operam
amici.' credo; iam enim non libet omnia criminari;
quasi
vero4 hoc mihi non satis sit ad crimen, habuisse tam
multum
quod daret, voluisse deportare tam multa, hoc denique,
quod
concedit, amicorum operis esse in huiusce5 modi rebus
usum.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tvlli Ciceronis Orationes: Divinatio in Q. Caecilivm. In C. Verrem Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Gvlielmvs Peterson Rector Vniversitatis MacGillianae. William Peterson. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1917. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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