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poetarum ista
sunt, nos autem philosophi esse volumus, rerum auctores non fabularum. atque hi tamen ipsi di poetici,
si scissent perniciosa fore illa filiis, peccasse in beneficio putarentur. Et si verum est quod Aristo Chius
dicere solebat, nocere audientibus philosophos is qui [p. 152]
bene dicta male interpretarentur (posse enim asotos
ex Aristippi, acerbos e Zenonis schola exire)—prorsus, si qui audierunt vitiosi essent discessuri, quod perverse philosophorum disputationem interpretarentur,
tacere praestaret philosophis quam iis qui se audissent
nocere;
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