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We have also in Posidonius a competent witness to the fact. He writes in one of his
letters that Publius Rutilius Rufus, who also was a
pupil of Panaetius's, used to say that “as no painter
had been found to complete that part of the Venus of
Cos which Apelles had left unfinished (for the beauty
of her face made hopeless any attempt adequately to
represent the rest of the figure), so no one, because
of the surpassing excellence of what Panaetius did
complete, would venture to supply what he had left
undone.”
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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