Caii Crispi Sallustii Opera Omnia: Excusa Ad Editionem Cortii Cum Editionibus Havercampi Et Gabrielis Antonii Collatam (Classic Reprint)

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III. Pulchrum di bene facere reipublice - eti am bene dicere baud abfurdmn efi: vel pace, vel bello clarum fieri licet: qui fecere, qui faéta aliorum fcripfere multi laudantur. Ac mihi quidem, tamen ctfi haudquaquam par gloria fe quatur fctiptorem an8corem rerum; tamen in primis arduum videtur res gei'tas fcribere: pri mum quod fa&a di&is funt exaequanda: debino, quia plerique qua deliéta repreh/enderis mali volentia invidia pugant: ubi de magna virtute gloria honorum memores quae fibi quifque facilia fa&u putat, aequo animo accipit; fupra ca, veluti fiéta, pro falfis ducit. Sed ego ado. Lcfcentulus, initio ficuti plerique, Rudio ad rem publicam latus fum, ibique mihi advorfa multa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abfiinentia, pro virtute; audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant. (eze tametfi animus afpernabatur, infolens malamm artium; tamen inter tanta vitia imbecilla aetas ambitione corrupta tenebatur: ac me, cum ab reliquorum malis moribus difl'entirem, nihilo minus honoris cupido, eadem, quae ceteros.

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