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For what can be so arrogant as for a layman to
endeavour to lecture the college of priests about religion, about divine
affairs, and ceremonies, and sacrifices; or so foolish as for a man, if he
has found anything of consequence in your books, to take up time in
detailing it to you; or so superfluous, as to seek to acquire learning on
those points concerning which our ancestors have laid down the principle
that you alone have knowledge, and that you alone ought to be consulted?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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