# Naturalis Historia 0.26

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Praefatio. Latin.

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26] Me non paenitet nullum festiviorem excogitasse titulum et, ne in totum videar Graecos insectari, ex illis mox velim intellegi pingendi fingendique conditoribus, quos in libellis his invenies, absoluta opera et illa quoque, quae mirando non satiamur, pendenti titulo inscripsisse, ut APELLES FACIEBAT aut POLYCLITUS, tamquam inchoata semper arte et inperfecta, ut contra iudiciorum varietates superesset artifici regressus ad veniam velut emendaturo quicquid desideraretur, si non esset interceptus.

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