# Pro Archia Poeta 24

Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, 24. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/pro-archia-poeta/24

quam multos scriptores rerum suarum magnus ille Alexander secum habuisse dicitur! atque is tamen, cum in Sigeo ad Achillis tumulum astitisset: o fortunate, inquit, adulescens, qui tuae virtutis Homerum praeconem inveneris! et vere. nam, nisi Ilias illa exstitisset, idem tumulus qui corpus eius contexerat nomen etiam obruisset. quid? noster hic Magnus qui cum virtute fortunam adaequavit, nonne Theophanem Mytilenaeum, scriptorem rerum suarum, in contione militum civitate donavit, et nostri illi fortes viri, sed rustici ac milites, dulcedine quadam gloriae commoti quasi participes eiusdem laudis magno illud clamore approbaverunt?

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Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark. 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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