# Noctes Atticae 17.5.1

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Book 17, Chapter 5. Latin.

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M. CICERO, in dialogo cui titulus est Laelius vel De Amicitia, docere volens amicitiam non spe expectationeque utilitatis neque pretii mercedisque causa colendam, sed quod ipsa per sese plena virtutis honestatisque sit expetendam diligendamque esse, etiamsi nihil opis nihilque emolumenti ex ea percipi queat, hac sententia atque his verbis usus est eaque dicere facit C. Laelium, sapientem virum, qui Publii Africani fuerat amicissimus: Quid enim?

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