Book 13
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That it is in this sense that our earlier writers have used the word, and in particular Marcus Varro and Marcus Tullius, De Orat. i. 71; ii. 72, etc. almost all the literature shows. Therefore I have thought it sufficient for the present to give one single example. I have accordingly quoted the words of Varro from the first book of his Human Antiquities, beginning as follows: Fr. 1, Mirsch. Praxiteles, who, because of his surpassing art, is unknown to no one of any liberal culture (humaniori). He does not use humanior in its usual sense of good-natured, amiable, and kindly, although without knowledge of letters, for this meaning does not at all suit his thought; but in that of a man of some cultivation and education, who knew about Praxiteles both from books and from story.
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The meaning of Marcus Cato's phrase betwixt mouth and morsel.
