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nec enim posset idem Demosthenes dicere quod dixisse
Antimachum clarum poetam ferunt: qui cum convocatis
auditoribus legeret eis magnum illud quod novistis volumen
suum et eum legentem omnes praeter Platonem reliquissent, Legam, inquit, nihilo minus: Plato enim mihi unus
instar est centum milium1. Et recte; poema enim reconditum paucorum adprobationem, oratio popularis adsensum
vulgi debet movere2. At si eundem hunc Platonem unum
auditorem haberet Demosthenes, cum esset relictus a ceteris,
verbum facere non posset.
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