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Libens accepit non dilutum
honorem et legatos invitatione aliaque humanitate
prosecutus cogitavit, non qui sibi civitatem darent,
sed cui dedissent ; et homo gloriae deditus, cuius
nec naturam nec modum noverat. Herculis Liberique
vestigia sequens ac ne ibi quidem resistens, ubi illa
defecerant, ad socium honoris sui respexit a dantibus,
tamquam caelum, quod mente vanissima complecte-
[p. 42]
batur, teneret, quia Herculi aequabatur !
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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