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12. C. Caesar dedit vitam Pompeio Penno, si dat,
qui non aufert ; deinde absoluto et agenti gratias
porrexit osculandum sinistrum pedem. Qui excusant
et negant id insolentiae causa factum, aiunt socculum
auratum, immo aureum, margaritis distinctum ostendere eum voluisse. Ita prorsus : quid hic contumeliosum est, si vir consularis aurum et margaritas
osculatus est alioquin nullam partem in corpore eius
electurus, quam purius oscularetur ?
[2]
Homo natus in
hoc, ut mores liberae civitatis Persica servitute
mutaret, parum iudicavit, si senator, senex, summis
usus honoribus in conspectu principum supplex sibi
[p. 72]
eo more iacuisset, quo hostes victi hostibus iacuere ;
invenit aliquid infra genua, quo libertatem detruderet ! Non hoc est rem publicam calcare, et quidem,
licet id aliquis non putet ad rem pertinere, sinistro
pede ? Parum enim foede furioseque insolens fuerat,
qui de capite consularis viri soccatus audiebat, nisi in
os senatoris ingessisset imperator epigros suos !
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