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-Libera lingua loquemur ludis Liberalibus, he may have often written at variance with police rules, and put dangerous questions, such as: -Cedo qui vestram rem publicam tantam amisistis tam cito? which he answered by an enumeration of political sins, such as: -Proveniebant oratores novi, stulti adulescentuli.
It appears in the well-known epitaph said to have been written by himself, also in the lines written against him by the family poet of the Metelli: 'malum dabunt Metelli Naevio poetae'. The name poeta was new in Naevius' time and was just displacing the old Latin name vates; see Munro on Lucr. 1, 102. PROVENIEBANT etc.: the same metre as above, divided thus by Lahmeyer:
Quod si legere aut audire voletis externa, maximas res publicas ab adulescentibus labefactatas, a senibus sustentatas et restitutas reperietis. Cedo qui vestram rem publicam tantam amisistis tam cito? sic enim percontantur in Naevi poetae Ludo. Respondentur et alia et hoc in primis: proveniebant oratores novi, stulti adulescentuli. Temeritas est videlicet florentis aetatis, prudentia senescentis.
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