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Edidi, quae potui, non ut volui, sed ut me temporis
angustiae coegerunt; scitum est enim causam conferre in
tempus, cum adferre plura, si cupias, non queas.' 'Tu
vero' inquit Catulus 'conlegisti omnia, quantum ego possum
iudicare, ita divinitus, ut non a Graecis sumpsisse, sed
eos ipsos haec docere posse videare; me quidem istius
sermonis participem factum esse gaudeo; ac vellem ut
meus gener, sodalis tuus, Hortensius, adfuisset; quem
quidem ego confido omnibus istis laudibus, quas tu oratione
complexus es, excellentem fore.'
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