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Neque verum est, quod ab inertibus
dicitur, opprimi memoriam imaginum pondere et obscurari
etiam id, quod per se natura tenere potuisset: vidi enim ego
summos homines et divina prope memoria, Athenis Charmadam,
in Asia, quem vivere hodie aiunt, Scepsium Metrodorum,
quorum uterque tamquam litteris in cera, sic se
aiebat imaginibus in eis locis, quos haberet, quae meminisse
vellet, perscribere. Qua re hac exercitatione non eruenda
memoria est, si est nulla naturalis; sed certe, si latet, evocanda
est.
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