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[98] quid? victum Lacedaemoniorum in philitiis1 nonne videmus? ubi cum tyrannus cenavisset Dionysius,2 negavit se iure illo nigro, quod cenae caput erat,3 delectatum. tum is qui illa coxerat:4 “minime mirum; condimenta enim defuerunt.” “quae tandem?” inquit ille. “labor in venatu, sudor,5 cursus ad Eurotam,6 fames, sitis. his enim rebus Lacedaemoniorum epulae7 condiuntur.” atque hoc non ex hominum more solum, sed etiam ex bestiis intellegi potest, quae, ut quicquid obiectum est, quod modo8 a natura non sit alienum, eo contentae non quaerunt amplius.

1 philiciis K philitus V

2 dionisius X (dyon. R)

3 caput erat capuerat X (corr. V3）

4 delectatum ... coxerat add. Vrecmg.

5 sodor GR1V

6 ad eurotam Bentl. ab eurota

7 aepulae X (ut singuli codd. saepe）

8 quod modo R2V2 quomodo

Tusculanae Disputationes. M. Tullius Cicero. M. Pohlenz. Leipzig. Teubner. 1918.

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