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Tum Quintus:
Est plane, Piso, ut dicis, inquit. nam
me ipsum huc modo venientem convertebat ad sese
Coloneus ille locus,1 cuius incola Sophocles ob oculos
versabatur, quem scis quam admirer quamque eo
delecter. me quidem ad altiorem memoriam Oedipodis huc venientis et illo mollissimo carmine quaenam essent ipsa haec2 loca requirentis species quaedam commovit, inaniter scilicet, sed commovit tamen.
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Tum Pomponius: At ego, quem vos ut deditum
Epicuro insectari soletis, sum multum equidem cum
Phaedro, quem unice diligo, ut scitis, in Epicuri
hortis, quos modo praeteribamus,3 sed veteris proverbii admonitu vivorum memini, nec tamen Epicuri4
licet oblivisci, si cupiam, cuius imaginem non modo
in tabulis nostri familiares, sed etiam in poculis et
in anulis56 habent.7
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