cum Pacideiano7 hic componitur,—optimus longeNihil enim illo oratore arbitror cogitari posse divinius. [18] Huic labori nostro duo genera reprehensionum8 oppo- nuntur. Vnum hoc: 'Verum9 melius Graeci.' A quo quaeratur ecquid10 possint ipsi11 melius Latine? Alterum: 'Quid istas potius legam quam Graecas ?' Idem Andriam et Synephebos nec minus Terentium et Caecilium quam Menandrum legunt, nec12 Andromacham aut Antiopam aut Epigonos Latinos recipiunt; sed tamen Ennium et Pacuvium et Accium potius quam Euripidem et Sophoclem legunt13. Quod igitur est eorum in orationibus e Graeco14 conversis fastidium, nullum cum sit in versibus ?
post homines natos—.
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1 quod Ernesti: quae codd.
2 sin Orelli: si GP: (et) qui codd. dett.
3 docti summurn vulg.: doctissimum codd.
4 nec ferro Hermann: et ferro GP: et foro codd. detft. sed quasi vulg.: et quasi GP
5 Aeschines cum Demosthene Schütz
6 ut ait Lucilius secl. Friedrich
7 Pacideiano Cratander: Pacidiano GP
8 reprehensorum maluit Manutius
9 verum vulg.: verbum codd.
10 ecquid vulg.: et quid codd.
11 ipsi vulg.: illi G
12 Terentium ... nec secl. Jahn
13 sed tamen... legunt secl. Jahn (Ennium... legunt secl. Orelli)
14 e Graeco Lambinus: a greco GP
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