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[4]
non quaeritur, quo
beneficium ab eo, cui datum est, transierit, sed ubi
[p. 344]
primo collocetur ; a reo tibi ipso et a capite repetitio
est."
Quid ergo ? Oro te, non dicis : " Filium mihi
donasti, et, si hic perisset, victurus non fui " ? Pro
eius vita beneficium non debes, cuius vitam tuae
praefers ? Etiamnunc, cum filium tuum servavi, ad
genua procumbis, dis vota solvis tamquam ipse ser-
vatus ; illae voces exeunt tibi :
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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