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lamentantis
inducunt fortissimos viros, molliunt animos nostros,
ita sunt deinde dulces, ut non legantur modo, sed
etiam ediscantur. sic ad malam domesticam disciplinam vitamque umbratilem et delicatam cum accesserunt etiam poëtae, nervos omnis virtutis elidunt.1 [p. 294]
recte igitur a Platone eiciuntur2 ex ea civitate, quam
finxit3 ille, cum optimos mores et optimum rei p. statum exquireret. at vero nos, docti scilicet a Graecia,
haec et a pueritia legimus ediscimus,4 hanc eruditionem liberalem et doctrinam putamus.
Sed quid poëtis irascimur?
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