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August. C.D. 2.9
“Numquam comoediae, nisi consuetudo
vitae pateretur, probare sua theatris flagitia potuissent.
... quem illa non adtigit vel potius quem
non vexavit? cui pepercit? Esto, populares homines
inprobos, in re publica seditiosos, Cleonem, Cleophontem, Hyperbolum laesit. Patiamur, etsi eius
modi cives a censore melius est quam a poeta notari;
sed Periclen, cum iam suae civitati maxima auctoritate plurimos annos domi et belli praefuisset, violari
versibus, et eos agi in scaena non plus decuit, quam
si Plautus noster voluisset aut Naevius Publio
et Gnaeo Scipioni aut Caecilius Marco Catoni male
dicere ...
”
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