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Good men wage no savage and relentless war against the gifts of friends, but while they look upon gifts taken to be stored away and increase the receiver's wealth as ignoble and mean, they refuse none which promote an unselfish and splendid munificence.
However, as regards the tripods, Panaetius tries to show that Demetrius was deceived by identity of name.
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