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Negatis quemquam praestare, quae loquitur,
nec ad exemplar orationis suae vivere. Quid
mirum, eum loquantur fortia, ingentia, omnis humanas
[p. 148]
tempestates evadentia ? Cum refigere se crucibus
conentur, in quas unusquisque vestrum clavos suos ipse
adigit, ad supplicium tamen acti stipitibus singulis
pendent ; hi, qui in se ipsi animum advertunt, quot
cupiditatibus tot crucibus distrahuntur. At maledici
et in1 ahenam contumeliam venusti sunt. Crederem
illis hoc vacare, nisi quidam ex patibulo suo spectatores conspuerent!
1 maledici et in Hermes after Koch: male dici ||| in A : ii maledici et in Bourgery.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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