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Regumque turres,inquit Horar.i ib.I.Carm. Od.IV. Excogitarunt humana induftriä me-dium, quofamaefusxternitatisumbram conciliare folenteruditi, Sttt-diis tuis te nunc immerge Mut , & prtduc rnemoridm dltqne fcriptt. Htetrtim unum iß »» rebut kumanit »put, cui nu II a ttmpeftdt tiottdt,quodr.ulld cwfumdt vctußdt , fcribit Senec.de confol. ad Polyb. c. XXXVII,Hac de rC fibi gratulatur Horatius verbis omatis paritcraccopiofis;Extgi monimentum *re perennial,

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