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Quid, ad auris nostras et actionis suavitatem quid est vicissitudine
et varietate et commutatione aptius? Itaque idem
Gracchus, quod potes audire, Catule, ex Licinio cliente
tuo, litterato homine, quem servum sibi ille habuit ad
manum, cum eburneola solitus est habere fistula qui staret
occulte post ipsum, cum contionaretur, peritum hominem,
qui inflaret celeriter eum sonum, quo illum aut remissum
excitaret aut a contentione revocaret.' 'Audivi me hercule,'
inquit Catulus 'et saepe sum admiratus hominis cum dili-
gentiam tum etiam doctrinam et scientiam.'
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