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O singularem sapientiam, iudices! nonne videntur hunc hominem
ex rerum natura sustulisse et eripuisse cui repente caelum, solem,
aquam terramque ademerint ut, qui eum necasset unde ipse natus
esset1, careret eis rebus omnibus ex quibus omnia nata esse dicuntur?
noluerunt feris corpus obicere ne bestiis quoque quae tantum scelus
attigissent
immanioribus uteremur; non sic nudos in flumen deicere ne, cum
delati essent in mare, ipsum2 polluerent quo cetera quae violata sunt
expiari putantur; denique nihil tam vile neque tam volgare est cuius
partem ullam reliquerint.
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