Book 12
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Worthy indeed would Seneca appear Ironical, of course. of the reading and study of the young, a man who has compared the dignity and beauty of early Latin with the couches of Sotericus, implying forsooth that they possessed no charm and were already obsolete and despised! Yet listen to the relation and mention of a few things which that same Seneca has well said, for example what he said of a man who was avaricious, covetous and thirsting for money: Why, what difference does it make how much you have? There is much more which you do not have. Is not that well put? Excellently well; but the character of the young is not so much benefited by what is well said, as it is injured by what is very badly put; all the more so, if the bad predominates, and if a part of the bad is uttered, not as an argument about some slight and trivial affair, but as advice in a matter requiring decision.
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The meaning and origin of the word lictor and the varying opinions of Valgius Rufus and Tullius Tiro on that subject.
