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The Epidicus also must have been a favourite with him. There is an allusion to it in the Bacchides, which shows that authors then were as much distressed by the incapacity of the actors as they are now. "Non herus sed actor mihi cor odio sauciat. Etiam Epidicum quam ego fabulum aeque ac me ipsum amo Nullam aeque invitus specto, si agit Pellio."
And Plato, having invited her to his feast, we see after how gentle and obliging a manner, accommodated both to time and place, she entertained the company, though in a discourse of the highest and most important nature: "Aeque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus aeque; Et, neglecta, aeque pueris senibusque nocebit."
In the words with which he winds up one of the most elaborate of his descriptive pieces, that on the lake of Vadimo in Tuscany Me nihil aeque ac naturae opera delectant there is an accent which hardly recurs till the age of the Seasons and of Gray's Letters.
His frankest confession is to be found in a letter to Titinius Capito, who had urged him to write history, when he says: "Me autem nihil aeque ac diuturnitatis amor et cupido sollicitat, res homine dignissima, eo presertime qui nullius sibi conscius culpae posteritatis memoriam non reformidet."
Even Virgil, who occasionally paints a bit of landscape or seascape in the Aeneid, does so in a half-hearted fashion, as a mere preface to the incident which is to follow, not from a poet's love of beauty. In Pliny, on the other hand, we find the modern love for a beautiful view. Me nihil aeque ac natura opera delectant.
I was so grown and accustomed to be always his double in all places and in all things, that methinks I am no more than half of myself: "Illam meae si partem anima tulit Maturior vis, quid moror altera? Nec carus aeque, nec superstes Integer? Ille dies utramque Duxit ruinam." What is left is not so dear, nor an entire thing: this day has wrought the destruction of both."
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