4, Iam enim non ita tecum ago ut te duos et
viginti annos natum cogitem. Qua aetate vixdum
quicquam veterum lectionum adtigeram? deorum et
tua virtute profectum tantum in eloquentia adsecutus
es, quantum senioribus ad gloriam sufficiat et, quod
est difficillimum, in omni genere dicendi. Nam
epistulae tuae, quas adsidue scripsisti, mihi satis
ostendunt quid etiam in remissioribus et tullianis
facere possis.
5. Pro Polemone rhetore, quem mihi tu in epistula
tua proxime exhibuisti tullianum, ego in oratione,
quam in senatu recitavi,? philosophum reddidi, nisi
me opinio fallit, perantiquom.* An quid tu dicas,°
Marce, quemadmodum tibi videtur fabula Polemonis
ame descripta? Plane multum mihi facetiarum con-
tulit istic Horatius Flaccus, memorabilis poeta mihi-
que propter Maecenatem ac Maecenatianos hortos
meos non | alienus, Is namque Horatius sermonum
libro secundo® fabulam istam Polemonis inseruit, si
recte memini, hisce versibus :—


Mutatus Polemon ponas insignia morbi,
Fasciolas, cubital, focalia, potus ut ille
Dicitur ex collo furtim carpsisse coronas,
Postquam et impransi correptus voce magistrt.
1 Niebuhr. 3 Heind. for Cod. adegeram.
3 On Aug. 13, 143. 4 Cod. peraticwm.
ὅ Buttmann would read iudicas. 8 Satires, ii. 3, 254.
1 Marcus was born April 26, 121 a.p.
2 Polemo, a tipsy gallant, bursting into the lecture room
of Xenocrates, was converted by what he heard to better
ways, and succeeded him as head of the peer

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though the swiftness of steeds is equally well exer-
cised whether they run and practise at a gallop or a
trot, yet the more serviceable qualities must be the
more frequently put into requisition.
