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sed aduersas hostibus ... POTAMON
magnus declamator fuit Mitylenis, qui eodem
tempore uiguit quo LESBOCLES magni nominis et
nomini respondentis ingenii: in quibus quanta fuerit
animorum diuersitas in simili fortuna puto uobis
indicandum, multo magis quia ad uitam pertinet quam si
ad eloquentiam pertineret. Vtrique filius eisdem diebus
decessit: LESBOCLES scolam soluit; nemo umquam
amplius declamantem audiuit; aequo animo recessit
POTAMON a funere filii: contulit se in scolam et
declamauit. Vtriusque tamen adfectum temperandum puto:
hic durius tulit fortunam quam patrem decebat, ille
mollius quam uirum.
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