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This is what is to be examined, and by that you are to judge of the vast differences betwixt man and man. Is he: "Sapiens, sibique imperiosus, Quern neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vincula terrent; Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis; et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus, Externi ne quid valeat per laeve morari; In quem manca ruit semper fortuna?"
The splendid cadence of the opening couplet Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus must have come on its readers with the shock of a new revelation. Nothing like it had ever been written in Latin before: itself and alone it assures a great future to the Latin elegiac.
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