QUARE quis tandem me reprehendat, si quantum cæteris ad festos dies ludorum celebrandos, quantum ad alias voluptates, et ad ipsam requiem, animi et corporis conceditur temporis: quantum alii tempestivis conviviis quantum alex, quantum pilæ, tantum mihi egomet, ad hæc studia recolenda, Cic. pro Archiâ.

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