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nec poetas legisse
satis est: excutiendum omne scriptorum genus
non propter historias modo sed verba, quae frequenter ius ab auctoribus sumunt. tum neque
citra musicen grammatice potest esse perfecta, cum
ei de metris rhythmisque dicendum sit, nec, si
rationem siderum ignoret, poetas intelligat, qui (ut
alia omittam) totiens ortu occasuque signorum in
declarandis temporibus utantur; nec ignara philosophiae, cum propter plurimos in omnibus fere
carminibus locos ex intima naturalium quaestionum
subtilitate repetitos, tum vel propter Empedoclea
in Graecis, Varronem ac Lucretium in Latinis, qui
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praecepta sapientiae versibus tradiderunt.
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