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 1 5 |   therefore to discourse of those verses of mine, which they have
 2 6 |         in that reproach. For the verses testify to the fact that
 3 6 |        the salutation these swift verses make.~Wherewith I send,
 4 6 |            what is there in these verses that is disgusting in point
 5 9 |       come to certain other of my verses, which according to them
 6 9 |   argument? `Apuleius has written verses!' If they are bad, that
 7 9 |           But they were frivolous verses of an erotic character.'
 8 9 |           so lascivious in all my verses compared with that one line?
 9 9 |   instances. Let me recite my own verses afresh, that my opponents
10 10|         work of an infamous rake: verses about garlands and serenades. ~
11 10|          of old, denies that such verses are worthy of a philosopher
12 10| Aemilianus, if I can show that my verses were modelled upon Plato?
13 10|          upon Plato? For the only verses of Plato now extant are
14 10|        and finish. Learn then the verses written by Plato in honour
15 11|      chaste. Agreed. ~But for his verses there is no such need. ~
16 11|        for its model, Plato whose verses, which I have just read,
17 39|      glorified many fish in other verses, stating where each was
18 86|        would not dare to read the verses of some obscene poet, even