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Satyra quidem tota nostra est: in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est
Lucilius ; qui quosdam ita deditos sibi adhuc habet amatores, ut eum, non
ejusdem modo operis autoribus, sed omnibus poetis, præferre non dubitent,

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