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repetamque
non ab incunabulis nostrae veteris puerilisque
doctrinae quendam ordinem praeceptorum, sed ea, quae
quondam accepi in nostrorum hominum eloquentissimorum
et omni dignitate principum disputatione esse versata; non
quo illa contemnam, quae Graeci dicendi artifices et doctores
reliquerunt, sed cum illa pateant in promptuque sint
omnibus, neque ea interpretatione mea aut ornatius explicari
aut planius exprimi possint, dabis hanc veniam,
mi frater, ut opinor, ut eorum, quibus summa dicendi laus
a nostris hominibus concessa est, auctoritatem Graecis
anteponam.
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