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[3] exemplum Epicuri referam. Cum Idomeneo scriberet et illum a vita speciosa ad fidelem stabilemque gloriam revocaret, rigidae 1 tunc potentiae ministrum et magna tractantem: "Si gloria," inquit, "tangeris, notiorem te epistulae meae facient quam omnia ista, quae colis et propter quae coleris."
1 For rigidae Lipsius proposed regiae, " like that of a king." This may be the correct reading.
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