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an amandarat1 hunc sic ut esset in agro ac
tantum modo aleretur ad villam, ut commodis omnibus careret?
quid? si constat hunc non modo colendis praediis praefuisse sed
certis fundis patre vivo frui solitum esse, tamenne haec a te vita eius2
rusticana relegatio atque amandatio appellabitur? vides, Eruci,
quantum distet argumentatio tua ab re ipsa atque a3 veritate. quod
consuetudine patres faciunt, id quasi novum reprehendis; quod
benivolentia fit, id odio factum4 criminaris; quod honoris causa pater
filio suo concessit, id eum supplici causa fecisse dicis.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1908. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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