Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Praefatio, chapter 1, section 19

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[19] Erit autem id longe optimum, ut qui in lectitando, percontando, ¹ scribendo, commentando, numquam voluptates, numquam labores ceperunt, nullas hoc genus vigilias vigilarunt neque ullis inter eiusdem Musae aemulos certationibus disceptationibusque elimati sunt, sed intemperiarum negotiorumque pleni sunt, abeant ² a “Noctibus” his procul, atque alia sibi oblectamenta quaerant. Vetus adagium est:

Nil cum fidibus graculost, ³ nihil cum amaracino sui.

1 percontando, added by J. F. Gronov; see note 4.

2 labeant percontando scribendo, ω..

3 graculos, ω.

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.

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