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[14] “Loquax,” inquit, “magis quam facundus.” Quapropter Hesiodus, poetarum prudentissimus, linguam non vulgandam, sed recondendam esse dicit proinde ut thesaurum, eiusque esse in promendo gratiam plurimam, si modesta et parca et modulata sit:

γλώσσης τοι θησαυρὸς ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἄριστος,
φειδωλῆς πλείστη δὲ χαρις κατὰ μέτροι ἰούσης,
Epicharmium quoque illud non inscite se habet:

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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