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For it is they that flaunt their weakness under the
name of health, in defiance of the actual truth, and
because they cannot endure the dazzling rays of the
sun of eloquence, hide themselves beneath the
shadow of a mighty name.1 However, as Cicero himself answered them at length and in a number of
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passages, it will be safer for me to be brief in my
treatment of this topic.
1 I.e. Attic.
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