# Noctes Atticae 18.5.7

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Book 18, Chapter 5. Latin.

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Cumque aliquot eorum qui aderant quadrupes equus apud suum quisque grammaticum legisse se dicerent et mirarentur quidnam esset quadrupes eques, Vellem vos, inquit, optimi iuvenes, tam accurate Q. Ennium legisse quam P. Vergilius legerat, qui hunc eius versum secutus in Georgicis suis equitem pro equo posuit his in versibus: Frena Pelethronii Lapithae gyrosque dedere Impositi dorso atque equitem docuere sub armis Insultare solo et gressus glomerare superbos. In quo loco equitem, si quis modo non inscite inepteque argutior sit, nihil potest accipi aliud nisi equum;

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