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at vero extra
Graeciam magna dicendi studia fuerunt maximique huic
laudi habiti honores inlustre oratorum nomen reddiderunt.
Nam ut semel e Piraeo eloquentia evecta est, omnis peragravit insulas atque ita peregrinata tota Asia est, ut se
externis oblineret1 moribus omnemque illam salubritatem
Atticae dictionis et quasi sanitatem perderet ac loqui paene
dedisceret. Hinc Asiatici oratores non contemnendi qui-
dem nec celeritate nec copia, sed parum pressi et nimis
redundantes; Rhodii saniores et Atticorum similiores.
1 oblineret vulg.: obtineret O: optineret codd.
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