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Paulum sitiens istarum
artium, de quibus loquor, gustavi, quaestor in Asia cum
essem, aequalem fere meum ex Academia rhetorem nactus,
Metrodorum illum, de cuius memoria commemoravit Antonius;
et inde decedens Athenis, ubi ego diutius essem
moratus, nisi Atheniensibus, quod mysteria non referrent,
ad quae biduo serius veneram, suscensuissem; qua re hoc,
quod complector tantam scientiam vimque doctrinae, non
modo non pro me, sed contra me est potius—non enim
quid ego, sed quid orator possit disputo—atque hos omnis,
qui artis rhetoricas exponunt, perridiculos; scribunt enim
de litium genere et de principiis et de narrationibus;
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