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 1 2 |            the day after Curiatius Maternus had given a reading of his
 2 3 |            we entered the study of Maternus, and found him seated with
 3 3 |           effect in deterring you, Maternus, from clinging to your Cato
 4 3 |         read, was the answer, what Maternus owed it to himself to write,
 5 4 |         severity of yours, replied Maternus, would be quite a blow to
 6 5 |          dispute, I will not allow Maternus to shelter himself behind
 7 5 |            which I think my friend Maternus will be the last to dispute. ~
 8 9 |            song and verse to which Maternus wishes to devote his whole
 9 9 | circumstances. Although your ears, Maternus, may loathe what I am about
10 9 |          Secundus here, or to you, Maternus, not because you are a poet
11 10|     eloquence. But it is with you, Maternus, that I am dealing; for,
12 11|            vehemence of utterance, Maternus replied good-humouredly
13 14|           say, full of enthusiasm, Maternus had hardly finished when
14 14|            Aper, in which he urged Maternus to apply all his ability
15 14|          causes, and then too with Maternus’s apology for his poems
16 15|           believe that Secundus or Maternus or you yourself, Aper, think
17 16|         answer for two of us, said Maternus; Secundus and myself will
18 23|          of the ancients. And you, Maternus and Secundus, combine charm
19 24|          having finished speaking, Maternus said, You recognise, do
20 27|          and decay of eloquence. ~ Maternus here interrupted him. Rather
21 27|         good-will. ~ Proceed, said Maternus. As you are speaking of
22 33|             33 For myself, replied Maternus, I do not think that you
23 42|                                 42 Maternus had now finished. There
24 42|           spent. It shall be, said Maternus, as you wish, on a future