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Nolo dici morte Africani "castratam" esse rem publicam,
nolo "stercus curiae" dici Glauciam; quamvis sit simile,
tamen est in utroque deformis cogitatio similitudinis; nolo
esse aut maius, quam res postulet: "tempestas comissationis";
aut minus: "comissatio tempestatis"; nolo esse
verbum angustius id, quod translatum sit, quam fuisset
illud proprium ac suum:
quidnam est, obsecro? Quid te adirier abnutas?
melius esset vetas, prohibes, absterres; quoniam ille dixerat:
ilico istic,
ne contagio mea bonis umbrave obsit ...
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