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Aristophanis quoque altioris est prudentiae praeceptum, qui in comoedia introduxit remissum ab inferis † Atheniensium Periclen uaticinantem non oportere in urbe nutriri leonem, sin autem sit altus, obsequi ei conuenire: monet enim ut praecipuae nobilitatis et concitati ingenii iuuenes refrenentur, nimio uero fauore ac profusa indulgentia pasti quo minus potentiam obtineant ne inpediantur, quod stultum et inutile sit eas obtrectare uires, quas ipse foueris.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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