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Hanc similitudinem
scribendi multi secuti sunt, qui sine ullis ornamentis monumenta
solum temporum, hominum, locorum gestarumque
rerum reliquerunt; itaque qualis apud Graecos Pherecydes,
Hellanicus, Acusilas fuit aliique permulti, talis noster Cato
et Pictor et Piso, qui neque tenent, quibus rebus ornetur
oratio—modo enim huc ista sunt importata—et, dum intellegatur
quid dicant, unam dicendi laudem putant esse
brevitatem.
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