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[5]
Tu me
aliquid eorum doce, per quae beneficentior gratiorque
adversus bene merentes fiam, per quae obligantium
[p. 20]
obligatorumque animi certent, ut, qui praestiterunt,
obliviscantur, pertinax sit memoria debentium. Istae
vero ineptiae poetis relinquantur, quibus aures oblec-
tare propositum est et dulcem fabulam nectere.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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