# Noctes Atticae 19.12.9

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, Book 19, Chapter 12. Latin.

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Discedit ille a vicino gratias agens et laetus, tamquam adeptus rei rusticae disciplinam. Tum falcem ibi ac securim capit: atque ibi homo misere inperitus vites suas sibi omnis et oleas detruncat comasque arborum laetissimas uberrimosque vitium palmites decidit et frutecta atque virgulta simul omnia, pomis frugibusque gignendis felicia, cum sentibus et rubis purificandi agri gratia convellit, mala mercede doctus audaciam fiduciamque peccandi imitatione falsa eruditus.

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Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, ed. John C. Rolfe. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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