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For there was
no one so disinclined to the Muses as not willingly to endure that the praise of
his labours should be made immortal by means of verse. They say that the great Themistocles,
the greatest man that Athens produced, said, when some one asked him what sound or whose voice
he took the greatest delight in hearing, “The voice of that by whom his own exploits
were best celebrated.” Therefore, the great Marius was also exceedingly attached to
Lucius Plotius, because he thought that the achievement which he had performed could be
celebrated by his genius.
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