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Hoc tibi ille Socrates dicet : “Fac me victorem
universarum gentium, delicatus ille Liberi currus
triumphantem usque ad Thebas a solis ortu vehat,
iura reges nationum petant a me1; hominem esse
maxime cogitabo, cum deus undique consalutabor.
Huic tam sublimi fastigio coniunge protinus praecipitem mutationem; in alienum imponar fericulum exor-
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naturus victoris superbi ae feri pompam ; non humilior
sub alieno curru agar quam in meo steteram.” Quid
ergo est ? Vincere tamen quam capi malo.
1 nationum petant a me Gertz : penatium petant me A.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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