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[66] Haec res eandem vim 1 habet quam praecipere. Nam qui praecipit, dicit: " illa facies, si voles temperans esse." Qui describit, ait: " temperans est, qui illa facit, qui illis abstinet." Quaeris, quid intersit ? Alter praecepta virtutis dat, alter exemplar. Descriptiones has et, ut publicanorum [p. 100] utar verbo, iconismos 2 ex usu esse confiteor; proponamus laudanda, invenietur imitator.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.
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