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sed ego in
hoc tamen Postumo non ignoscam, homini mediocriter
docto, in quo videam sapientissimos homines esse lapsos?
virum unum totius Graeciae facile doctissimum, Platonem,
iniquitate Dionysi, Siciliae tyranni, cui se ille commiserat,
in maximis periculis insidiisque esse versatum accepimus;
Callisthenem, doctum hominem, comitem Magni Alexandri,
ab Alexandro necatum; Demetrium, qui Phalereus vocitatus
est, et ex re publica Atheniensi, quam optime gesserat, et
ex doctrina nobilem et clarum, in eodem isto Aegyptio
regno aspide ad corpus admota vita esse privatum.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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