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Caesaris prima tempora loquitur nec, quod te imitari
velit, exemplar extra te quaerit ; principatus tuus
ad gustum 1 exigitur. Difficile hoc fuisset, si non
naturalis tibi ista bonitas esset, sed ad tempus
sumpta. Nemo enim potest personam diu ferre,
ficta cito in naturam suam recidunt ; quibus veritas
subest quaeque, ut ita dicam, ex solido enascuntur,
tempore ipso in maius meliusque procedunt.
1 So N: augustum most MSS. : obrussam Haase.
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