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10. Do you not observe in Homer how, time and
again, Nestor proclaims his own merits? 1 For he,
at that time, was looking on the third generation of
men,2 yet he did not fear that, in speaking the truth
about himself, he would appear to any great extent
either odd or loquacious. For as Homer says,
“Speech sweeter than honey flowed from his
tongue”;3 and this sweetness had no need of
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physical strength; and yet the illustrious Grecian
chief4 never prays for ten men like Ajax. but for
ten like Nestor, and he doubts not that, if he had
them, Troy would speedily be destroyed.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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