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Miserrima omnino est ambitio honorumque contentio, de qua praeclare apud eundem est Platonem, “similiter facere eos, qui inter se contenderent, uter potius rem publicam administraret, ut si nautae certarent, quis eorum potissimum gubernaret.” Idemque praecipit, ut “eos adversaries existimemus, qui arma contra ferant, non eos, qui suo iudicio tueri rem publicam velint,” qualis fuit inter P. Africanum et Q. Metellum sine acerbitate dissensio.
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