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μεταλαβεῖν διὰ πενίαν; ὃς ἄρχω τε τὰς μεγίστας [p. 305] ἀρχὰς καὶ πρεσβεύω τὰς ἐπιφανεστάτας πρεσβείας καὶ σεβασμοὺς ἱερῶν πιστεύομαι τοὺς ἁγιωτάτους καὶ γνώμην ἀγορεύειν ἀξιούμενος περὶ τῶν ἀναγκαιοτάτων καλοῦμαι ἐν ᾧ προσήκει με τόπῳ, ἐπαινοῦμαί τε καὶ ζηλοῦμαι καὶ οὐδενὸς δεύτερός εἰμι τῶν μέγιστα δυναμένων καὶ παράδειγμα τοῖς ἄλλοις εἶναι δοκῶ καλοκαγαθίας, οὐδὲν ἐκ τῆς ἐμῆς οὐσίας εἰς ταῦτα δαπανῶν, [4] ὥσπερ οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων οὐδείς. οὐ γὰρ ἐνοχλεῖ τοῖς ἑκάστου βίοις ἡ πόλις ἡ Ῥωμαίων ὥσπερ τινὲς ἕτεραι, ἐν αἷς ὁ κοινὸς μὲν πλοῦτος ὀλίγος ἐστίν, ὁ δὲ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν πολύς, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτὴ παρέχει τοῖς πρὸς
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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