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aut, ni ita se res haberet, Anaxagoras aut hic
ipse Democritus agros et patrimonia sua reliquissent,1
huic discendi2 quaerendique divinae3 delectationi toto
se animo dedissent? itaque augurem Tiresiam, quem
sapientem fingunt poëtae, numquam inducunt deplorantem
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caecitatem suam; at vero Polyphemum Homerus cum inmanem ferumque finxisset,4 cum ariete etiam
conloquentem facit eiusque laudare fortunas, quod,
qua5 vellet, ingredi posset et, quae6 vellet, attingere.7
recte hic quidem; nihilo enim erat ipse Cyclops quam
aries ille prudentior.8
Tusculanae Disputationes. M. Tullius Cicero. M. Pohlenz. Leipzig. Teubner. 1918.
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