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Socrates, in pompa cum magna vis auri
argentique ferretur,1 “quam multa non desidero!” inquit. Xenocrates,2 cum legati ab Alexandro quinquaginta ei talenta attulissent, quae erat pecunia temporibus illis, Athenis praesertim, maxuma, abduxit legatos3
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ad cenam in Academiam; is apposuit tantum,
quod satis esset,4 nullo apparatu. cum postridie rogarent eum, cui numerari iuberet,5 “quid? vos hesterna”
inquit “cenula non intellexistis6
me pecunia non egere?”
quos7 cum tristioris vidisset, triginta minas accepit, ne
aspernari regis liberalitatem videretur.
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