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[102] Cur igitur divitiae desiderentur, aut ubi paupertas beatos esse non sinit? signis, credo, tabulis studes.1 si quis est qui his delectetur,2 nonne melius tenues homines fruuntur quam illi qui is abundant?34 est enim earum rerum omnium in nostra56 urbe summa in publico copia. quae qui privatim7 habent, nec8 tam multa et raro vident, cum in sua rura venerunt; quos tamen pungit aliquid, cum, illa unde habeant, recordantur. dies deficiat,9 si velim paupertatis causam defendere. aperta enim res est, et cotidie10 nos ipsa natura admonet, quam paucis, quam parvis11 rebus egeat, quam vilibus.

Num12 igitur ignobilitas aut humilitas aut etiam popularis offensio sapientem beatum esse prohibebit?

1 studes Sey. ludis (et ante tabulis add. We. sed cf. parad. 49. Verr. 5, 132. Phil. 2, 109）

2 delectetur ex -atur G1

3 cur... 7 habundant

4 habundant GRcH

5 in post nostra add. ς post omnium Wo.

6 nostrae G1

7 privati ς corr. Lb.

8 nec add. V1

9 deficiet KRH

10 cottidie K

11 pravis V1

12 Epic. fr. 586

Tusculanae Disputationes. M. Tullius Cicero. M. Pohlenz. Leipzig. Teubner. 1918.

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