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What was it that raised him? This man's commendation alone who not
only took this Panurgus home that he might have the name of a pupil of Roscius, but who
also instructed him with the greatest pains and energy and patience. For the more
skillful and ingenious any one is, the more vehement and laborious is he in teaching his
art; for that which he himself caught quickly, he is tortured by seeing slowly
comprehended by another. My speech has extended itself to some length, in order that you
may thoroughly understand the conditions of this partnership.
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